WOMEN QUOTES XXV

quotations about women

'Of womenkind such indeed is the love,
Or the word love abused,
Under which many childish desires
And conceits are excused.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

Tags: Sir Walter Raleigh


A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

HONORE DE BALZAC

A Woman of Thirty

Tags: Honore de Balzac


A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

Tags: José Saramago


If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

IVAN KLIMA

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

Tags: Ivan Klima


Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Septimus

Tags: William John Locke


Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

ROSEANNE BARR

attributed, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Health Fair

Tags: Roseanne Barr


Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

An Old-Fashioned Girl


Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

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A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

Tags: Douglas Carlton Abrams


I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

ERMA BOMBECK

Forever, Erma


Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Most fashionable ladies are as diamonds because they are more costly than useful.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

Tags: José Saramago


Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

Tags: Kevin Leman


He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Silence of Colonel Bramble