WOMEN QUOTES III
quotations about women
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
FRANK SINATRA
attributed, The Way You Wear Your Hat
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM
A Defence of Cosmetics
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election
Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.
ANONYMOUS
If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.
GERALD F. LIEBERMAN
attributed, Dim Wit: The Stupidest Quotes of All Time
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND
People Magazine, May 31, 1993
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
PAULINE RÉAGE
introduction, The Image
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER
New York World, August 16, 1925
Women's eyes have pierced more hearts than ever did the bullets of war.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Women could be trying at times, but they often brought warmth and pleasure to a man's fire.
JEAN M. AUEL
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Every world has faults
This one has too many
Unattainable Female Objects.
DAVID JONATHAN NEWMAN
"U.F.O.", The Light Looks Another Way
A woman that speaks the truth finds no favor in my eyes, for she disturbs the pretty theories I cherish about her sex.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance