WOMEN QUOTES VIII
quotations about women
Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Good Housekeeping, October 2010
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Irené
Feline, feminine: A quaint similarity of sound. Brutal the thought that suggests an analogy.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Letters to a Young Poet
Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women ... they're all masochists at heart.
HENRY MILLER
Tropic of Cancer
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
REX STOUT
Gambit
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
TOBSHA LEARNER
Soul
It is not the woman man can be rich with who is the most companionable, but the woman he can be poor with.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
MARK TWAIN
letter to Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett, February 8, 1862
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Question of Lay Analysis
There are, without counting grocers and drapers, so many people who, to kill time, occupy themselves in seeking for the hidden motives which direct women's actions, that it is a work of charity to classify by titles and in chapters all the private circumstances of marriage; a good index will enable them to put their finger on the motions of their wives' hearts, just as logarithmic tables give them the product of any two numbers.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
A woman's thought is endowed with incredible elasticity. When she receives a knockdown blow, she bends, seems crushed, and then renews her natural shape in a given time.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
ISADORA DUNCAN
My Life
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hero and Leander
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
YASMINA REZA
The God of Carnage