WOMEN QUOTES XXVII

quotations about women

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to John Middleton Murry, November 27, 1913

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Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, October 4, 1930

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When a woman gets over 35 she is generally willing to embark on the sea of matrimony with almost any life-buoy.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs


Women are the backbone of this country. We do it all -- we are the most organized and compassionate workers -- and we do it knowing our counterparts are paid more.

TONYA MURRAY

Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2017


Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him ... In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex


Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

letter to Steve Richmond, November 1971

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When the hour of adversity arrives, when false friends are scattered, when we are moving through the keen atmosphere of selfishness, then it is that the virtuous wife, like an angel of light, shines with peculiar lustre.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Valley of Horses

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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983

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