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Quotes About Women

All women are mysteries." "Only men think that," said Pearl. "Largely because they're not paying attention.
~ Lisa Unger
He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.
~ Lisa Unger
You have to incapacitate the women first. Because women are the fighters. They will go claw and teeth to protect their families.
~ Lisa Unger
God particularly favors older women as channels of divine grace.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
When I hear women rail that the Bible is misogynistic, I wonder if we're reading the same book. God loves women, redeems women, empowers women--then and now. On the day we call Christmas, He could have simply arrived on earth, yet He chose to enter through a virgin's womb. On the day we call Easter, He could have appeared first to His beloved disciple, John, yet He chose as His first witness a woman set free from seven demons.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god." Umegat emptied his cup. "The gods love their great-souled men and women as an artist loves fine marble, but the issue isn't virtue. It is will. Which is chisel and hammer.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But why, in God the Father's name, should they want to destroy Athos? Is Cetaganda—controlled by women or something?" A
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Ethan trembled, waiting for the insanity to strike him from their level, medusan gazes. Nothing happened. After a moment, he unclutched the desk edge. Perhaps then the madness that possessed galactic men, slaves to these creatures, was something only transmitted in the flesh. Some incalculable telepathic aura? Bravely, he raised his eyes again to the figures in the screen. So. That was a woman -- two women, in fact.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Her eyes were huge and gold and molten. You did say you liked to practice what you were great at. Miles had never realized how susceptible he was to flattery from tall women. A weakness he must guard against. Sometime. They retired to his cabin and practiced assiduously till halfway to Escobar.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The president of the League of Women Voters and the Chairwoman of the Sully Township Concerned Citizens' Committee were rumored to be close to trial by combat in city council meetings.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
She was not the first woman he'd met who endured dire pain in disturbing silence
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
She shoots. He restrained his smile as he turned back to Lance and nodded in her direction. I needed some sort of defense. Lance wasn't amused. He wiped his hand over his face and muttered something about damn stubborn women. Braden completely agreed with him.
~ Lora Leigh
You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public. Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.
~ Loretta Chase
Obviously, the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women, who are twice oppressed. So I imagine that they react accordingly: as oppression makes people more militant, women become twice militant, because they are twice oppressed.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
I would be a genius now," Quilty has said three times already, "if only I'd memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu." "If only," says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a completely different person. But what could you do? He'd read in a magazine once that geniuses were born only to women over thirty; his own mother had been twenty-nine. Damn! So fucking close!
~ Lorrie Moore
You women today," Mrs. Mallon said. "You expect too much.
~ Lorrie Moore
Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I should have brought her up stupid, said the doctor at last. When women acquire powers of deduction there's no knowing where trouble can end.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Nonetheless, I love you. Forever? In Sicily they say that eternal love lasts for two years. Fortunately, I am not Sicilian. Greek men love themselves and their mothers forever. Their wives they love for six months. Fortunately I am a woman.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Visiem zin?ms, ka ?imenes gods ir atkar?gs no t?s sieviešu uzved?bas.
~ Louis de Bernieres
A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.
~ Louis L'Amour
There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected.
~ Louis L'Amour