WOMEN QUOTES VIII
quotations about women
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democratic president. It's kind of a pipe dream; it's a personal fantasy of mine.
ANN COULTER
Newsweek, October 15, 2007
It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Lodore
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
Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
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
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
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
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
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
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
There are two streams in the minds of our people: one in which women are really oppressed and given very low status and one in which they are given very high honour, sometimes even greater honour than men, at least if not in fact, in language and metaphor.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
I know the woman has no soul, I know
The woman has no possibilities
Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is
The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so.
It is her flesh that I adore; I go
Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss.
I know she cannot love: it is not this
My vanquished heart implores in overthrow.
Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone,
Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent
Music, divinest human harmony;
Her body now a silent instrument,
That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me
The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.
ARTHUR SYMONS
"Idealism"
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The Reflections of Lichtenberg
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
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
All women are beautiful when they are young, and their eyes are full and clear and their voices are soft and their bosoms are round and smooth.
LOUIS BECKE
"Solepa", By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
TERESA MEDEIROS
The Vampire Who Loved Me
Woman's mind
Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind;
Sudden she rages, like the troubled main,
Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.
JOHN GAY
Dione