WOMEN QUOTES XXVII

quotations about women

A woman in power is hardly a routine matter. Historically, 63 of 142 nations studied by the World Economic Forum have had a female head of government or state at some point in the half-century preceding 2014. However, in nearly two-thirds of those nations a woman was in power for less than four of the 50 years. And in 11 countries (17%), a woman led for less than a year.

TARA SONENSHINE

"U.S. vs the World? Women as Top Political Leaders", The Globalist, February 10, 2016


Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

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Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

TANITH LEE

Hunting the Shadows

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

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

letter to Steve Richmond, November 1971

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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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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 ... 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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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


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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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


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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