Women Quotes

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

~ James M. Cain

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

~ Chris Rock

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

~ Erica Bauermeister

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

~ Nenia Campbell

For those of us who question, your whole life becomes a question. Do you then reach some level of understanding, and then it's static? I don't think so (age twenty-two, unlabeled)

~ Lisa Diamond

Although most of the women I interviewed felt that their sexualattractions paralleled their emotional attachments, this was not alwaysthe case. In fact, women reported that on average, the percentageof physical same-sex attractions they experienced differedfrom their emotional same-sex attractions by about 15 percentagepoints in either direction (in other words, some women were moreemotionally than physically drawn to women, whereas others weremore physically than emotionally drawn). A small number ofwomen reported discrepancies of up to 40 percentage points.Like women with nonexclusive attractions, women with significantgaps between their emotional and physical feelings oftenfaced challenges in selecting a comfortable identity label. They hadto decide whether their sexual identity was better categorized bypatterns of “love” or patterns of “lust,” and they had to forecastwhat sort of relationships they might desire in the future. Manyof these women found it difficult to make these determinations.Sue, for example, felt that her attractions were riddled withcontradictions: “I prefer to make out with men, but the idea of havingsex with a man utterly repulses me. I would, however, like tomarry a woman, and that’s who I want to make a long-term commitmentto.

~ Lisa Diamond

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

~ Angela Carter

Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more intense plane than anything men could offer, like the romantic rivalries of sisters. Together, women formed a conspiracy of glances entirely exchanged behind the backs of their menfolk.

~ J.g. Ballard

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

~ Jessica Valenti

What would you like to do with my neck?’ I asked. ‘Seduce me with your words. Feel free.

~ James Lusarde

I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…

~ James Lusarde

We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.

~ Caroline Knapp

She [Bernice] didn’t like anything that had an adult theme, with only one exception, her collection of erotic female memorabilia. They were all antiques, fragments of other women’s sexuality that was somehow easier to deal with than her own.

~ K. Ford K.

Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.

~ Tapan Singhel

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

~ Heather O'neill

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

~ Sheila Jeffreys

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

~ Margot Mccuaig

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

~ Bonnie Marcus

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.

~ Jimmy Carter

It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

~ Sabrina Chapadjiev

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

~ Louise Erdrich

I'm just saying, when a woman in a maiden, she's in the spotlight. Everybody cares what a pretty, young girl does and says. And she's got some pretty strict archetypes to adhere to: Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella or Britney Spears. Pick your poison. But when you become a young mother? People don't give a fuck what you're doing. Their eyes glaze over before they even finish asking you. Once a woman starts doing the most important work of her life, all of a sudden, nobody wants to know a thing about it.

~ Rufi Thorpe

Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing the contradictions or the improbability of the task. As mothers, you are often expected to have a fulfilling career, time for personal interests, a rewarding marriage, involvement in your communities, a thorough grasp of current events - and be able to provide baked goods at a moment's notice.

~ Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.

~ Anita Diamant

Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see?” She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. “Giving up every molecule of your soul. If you want anything for yourself, you’re accused of being selfish. Marriage and especially motherhood mean being condemned to play second fiddle your entire life.

~ Andrea Lochen

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age.She suffered with me in my poverty, and was not allowed to share my better fortune. When young, I made her sad, and now I cannot console her. I know not even where her bones are: I was too poor then to buy earth to bury her!And yet I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words [not to mention my features and gestures], I find again my mother in myself. It is my mother's blood which gives me the sympathy I feel for bygone ages, and the tender remembrance of all those who are now no more.What return then could I, who am myself advancing towards old age, make her for the many things I owe her? One, for which she would have thanked me--this protest in favour of women and mothers.

~ Samuel Smiles

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

~ Marge Piercy

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

~ Neal Shusterman

Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman’s body is beyond a words measure, with their dazzling rawness it’s impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.

~ S.k. Logsdon

I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

~ James Lusarde

Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?

~ James Lusarde

I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it...

~ James Lusarde

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

~ Françoise Sagan

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

~ Marcel Proust

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.

~ Alex Rosa

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

~ Elizabeth George

A gifted man does not waste his life on women.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

~ Debasish Mridha