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Quotes About Complexity

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
~ Philip James Bailey
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
~ Marina Warner
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
~ Susan Sontag
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
~ Alice Munro
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
~ Alexander Pope
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
~ George Eliot
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
~ Brian Tracy
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
~ Henry James
Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
~ Luigi Pirandello
You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?
~ Sylvia Plath
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.
~ Sam Neill
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
~ Maurice Sendak
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
~ Charlize Theron
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
~ H. G. Wells
Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
~ Jackson Browne
Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
~ Jamie Hince
Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
~ James Thurber
If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
~ Dolores Hitchens
The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.
~ Amy Dickinson
Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.
~ Kevin Hart
What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
~ Ovid
Yes, life is a woman!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
~ Natalie Dormer