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Quotes About Women

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
~ Ami McKay
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
~ Ami McKay
I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
~ Aminatta Forna
I think I picked up some passengers from one of those women at the tavern. Little bastards don't half give a man an itch.' Huh. The women are paid to go there. One might have thought the lice would have better taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
~ Joe Barton
But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.
~ Joe Hill
Women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now.
~ Joe Hill
The hens are clucking. Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth.
~ Joe Hill
Satan has long been known as the Adversary, but God fears women even more than He fears the devil—and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man's worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.
~ Joe Hill
Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done—cook an omelet, change lightbulbs, make with hugging—sometimes almost made being a woman fun. She wished she were not so
~ Joe Hill
Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone they can boss around and undress at will. They can work out their own aggression with a few fictional rape scenes. Then they can send their fictional surrogate in to save her, a white knight—or a fireman! Someone with all the power and all the agency. Real women, on the other hand, have all these tiresome interests of their own, and won't follow an outline.
~ Joe Hill
You know about women who work in bars." "What about them?" Bing asked. "Whores," Manx said. "Almost all of them. At least until their looks go, and in the case of Lily Carter's mother they're going fast.
~ Joe Hill
You want to know what I'm wearing?" "Not unless you think it'll really get me excited." "I'm afraid clothes have to have women in them for you to get excited." "Maybe you could talk in a high voice." "Cut through the shit, Hap.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
There is a pit forming the radius of which is only men. 'A circle (pit) with no women in is not a circle but a fallace
~ Joe Talbot
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~ Joel Rosenberg
When civilisation declined, it was the women who always suffered most.
~ Joel Shepherd
I thought...it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
~ Joey W. Hill
My mother warned me about short, determined women," he said at last, clearing his throat. "Said they're are meaner than any other kind.
~ Joey W. Hill
The society of women is the element of good manners.
~ Johann von Goethe
Girls are always so keen to review [3525] Whether one's virtuous, and sticks to the rules. They think if a man can be led, he'll follow too.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.
~ Harvey Pekar
I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.
~ Dana Perino
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
~ George Eliot