WOMEN QUOTES XIII

quotations about women

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

J. D. SALINGER

The Catcher in the Rye

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The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

MARY CLEMMER AMES

Outlines of Men, Women, and Things

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To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After

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At some point in their career, it becomes obvious that women are more under-promoted than men are in the same field. There are many reasons as to why it happens and unfortunately, the result of this phenomenon actually perpetuates the problem. It's a cycle that's hard to break.

KAREN FRATTI

"Women Are More Under-Promoted Than Men & That's A Problem For Several Reasons", Romper, April 3, 2017


Be delicate, little wife-woman. Never be without your veil, without many veils. Veil yourself in a thousand veils, all shimmering and glittering with costly textures and precious jewels. Never let the last veil be drawn. Against the morrow array yourself with more veils, ever more veils, veils without end. Yet the many veils must not seem many. Each veil must seem the only one between you and your hungry lover who will have nothing less than all of you. Each time he must seem to get all, to tear aside the last veil that hides you. He must think so. It must not be so. Then there will be no satiety, for on the morrow he will find another last veil that has escaped him.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon

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I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me -- and that I've made of myself -- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

MARILYN MONROE

attributed, Marilyn, 1962

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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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The most important thing in knowing that women are necessary is knowing that men are necessary too.

TAMARA ANGELA GRANT

"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017


You gotta respect a girl who realizes that romantic relationships are built on lies and goes to town with it!

PETE ABRAMS

"That Which Redeems", Sluggy Freelance, August 26, 2004

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No woman is all good or all bad, entirely "pure" or entirely sexual, or just a mother or daughter or student or teacher or business woman or sex worker. Newsflash: It's 2017, and women can be lots of things at once. Refusing to understand this fact contributes to our culture's insistence on defining women in terms of their relationships with other people.

JULIA O'DONNELL

"Women are so much more than just sisters, mothers, wives", The Badger Herald, March 14, 2017


The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

HENRIK IBSEN

From Ibsen's Workshop

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Affection with some women amounts almost to disease.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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I need a real MAN--
so, I can be a Woman--
We are different for good reasons.
We need each other like puzzle pieces.
To inspire greatness in each other.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, April 4, 2017

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It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing

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Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Men may weary by their constancy, but women never.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A Daughter of Eve

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Never mix your women.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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