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Quotes About Women

The sexual degradation of women has long been accompanied by laughter. If misogyny has a soundtrack, it is canned laughter.
~ Abigail Bray
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
His latest theory about his dealings with women isn't that he's lost his reason or that women are illogical (Deb, for instance, displays exemplary thought processes;) it's just that a certain vital part of the interface between them is strongly encrypted and requires some workaround.
~ Adam Felber
We are tired of living under this tyranny. We cannot endure that our women and children are taken away And dealt with by the white savages. We shall make war. . . . We know that we shall die, but we want to die. We want to die.
~ Adam Hochschild
A pamphlet by "A Little Mother" typically declared that "we women . . . will tolerate no such cry as 'Peace! Peace!' . . . There is only one temperature for the women of the British race, and that is white heat. . . . We women pass on the human ammunition of 'only sons' to fill up the gaps." It sold 75,000 copies in a few days.
~ Adam Hochschild
As 1917 wore on, antiwar rallies drew larger crowds. Charlotte Despard and several other women formed a new organization, the Women's Peace Crusade. "I should like the words 'alien' and 'foreigner' to be banished from the language," she said in one speech. "We are all members of the same family.
~ Adam Hochschild
When a final tally was made after the war, it would show that 27,927 Boers—almost all of them women and children—had died in the camps, more than twice the number of Boer soldiers killed in combat.)
~ Adam Hochschild
a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.
~ Adam Rex
Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.
~ Adrian Rogers
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Actually, all four of the Malone brothers were Afro-Latino gods with deeper pockets than the Wildes. Any time one of them spoke in their mother's native Italian, women went soft in the knees.
~ Adrianne Byrd
I know this seems quaint, but back in 2008, Republicans did not consider demeaning and degrading women to be senatorial, let alone presidential.
~ Al Franken
As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.
~ Alain de Botton
The more tempting kind of beauty has only a few angles from which it may be glimpsed, and then not in all lights and at all times. It flirts dangerously with ugliness, it takes risks with itself, it does not side comfortably with mathematical rules of proportion, it draws its appeal from precisely those details that also lend themselves to ugliness. As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.
~ Alain de Botton
The foregrounding of health may be one part of the mission of fashion, but on a more ambitious level, this art form also provides women with clothes that support a range of views about what it means to be an interesting and desirable human being.
~ Alain de Botton
HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull. IRWIN: Oh. Larkin. HEADMASTER: Everybody says that. 'Hull? Oh, Larkin.' I don't know about the poetry...as I say, I was a geographer...but as a librarian he was pitiless. The Himmler of the Accessions Desk. And now, we're told, women in droves. Art. They get away with murder.
~ Alan Bennett
The Kamasutra warns that conception with women on top can alter the sexuality of the children conceived.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
As per some Vedic marriage rites, a woman is first given in marriage to the romantic moon-god, Chandra, then to the highly sensual Gandharva named Vishwavasu, then to the fire-god, Agni, who cleanses and purifies all things, and finally to her human husband. Thus, the 'four men' quota is exhausted. Clearly this was an attempt of society to prevent Hindu women from remarrying.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
In the famous temple sculptures of Khajuraho, one finds beautiful women disrobing themselves on the excuse that a scorpion is climbing up their thighs.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
In the Ramayana many women are killed or mutilated on the grounds of them being demons: Tadaka is the first amongst them and Surpanakha is the most well known. But there are others such as Ayomukhi, Simhika, Surasa, Lankini and even Mandodari, the wife of Ravana, and Chandrasena, the wife of Mahiravana. It is difficult to digest that these are simply metaphors for wild, untamed nature. There is clearly an acceptance of male violence against women.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
According to the code of dharma, women had only one duty: obey the father when unmarried, the husband when married and the son when widowed. For men, duty was determined by varna, station in society, and ashrama, the stage in life.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
In the Ramayana many women are killed or mutilated on the grounds of them being demons. It is difficult to digest that these are simply metaphors for wild, untamed nature. There is clearly an acceptance of male violence against women.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
In classical Sanskrit poetry, the laughter of women is responsible for the blooming of plants, which is why women were invited to the royal gardens in spring to sing and dance and play.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik