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Quotes About Women

How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.
~ Donna Leon
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
~ Doris Day
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
~ Doris Lessing
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
~ Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
~ Doris Lessing
Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.
~ Doris Lessing
What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.
~ Dorothy Allison
Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.
~ Dorothy Roberts
Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women's reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America.
~ Dorothy Roberts
that reproductive liberty is essential to women's political and social citizenship.
~ Dorothy Roberts
The story of control of Black reproduction begins with the experiences of slave women like Rose Williams. Black procreation helped to sustain slavery, giving slave masters an economic incentive to govern Black women's reproductive lives.
~ Dorothy Roberts
I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
don't you think? Not that this isn't a common bias. But women can be psychopaths,
~ Douglas E. Richards
He could analyze the psychological aspects of the most devious totalitarian regimes, but women would forever be as inscrutable to him as Sanskrit.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Richard Kemp, commander of British forces in Afghanistan, had written in a formal report that, "The Taliban's use of women to shield gunmen as they engage NATO forces is now so normal it is deemed barely worthy of comment.
~ Douglas E. Richards
But if the views of some migrant communities on homosexuality were only a couple of generations out of date, the views of portions of those communities on the subject of women were shown to be out of date by many centuries, at least.
~ Douglas Murray
Few people in Cologne would miss the symbolism of the fact that almost exactly a year later the cathedral's lights were blazing as hundreds of local women were molested, raped and robbed by migrants in the same streets in which the cathedral authorities had objected to Pegida protesters walking, standing or congregating.
~ Douglas Murray
The manner in which marketing addresses women tells us a great deal about what women are actually motivated by when they think men aren't watching. Consider the endless numbers of advertising campaigns and pieces in women's magazines dedicated to motifs like 'Make him drool'.
~ Douglas Murray
actually exist like a racial or religious community. It is a form of absurdity. For even on its own terms this composition is wildly unsustainable and contradictory. Gay men and gay women have almost nothing in common. It may be too pedestrian to even mention, but gay men and lesbians do not always form the warmest of relationships.
~ Douglas Murray
The church today is dominated by this theology of silly women.
~ Douglas Wilson
Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical tasks, different areas of their brains light up in response. In addition, females use both hemispheres, while male brain activity is restricted to one side. (21)
~ Dr. Kevin Leman
It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this — in Her great wisdom.
~ Dr. Wayne Callaway
They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.
~ Drake