Quotes About Women

But how should women perform so wise and glorious an achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowing gowns, decked out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers?

LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To the lowest angry dimple. MAGISTRATE

WOMEN Well, I'll relate a rival fable just to show to you A different point of view: There was a rough-hewn fellow, Timon, with a face That glowered as through a thorn-bush in a wild, bleak place. He too decided on flight, This very Furies' son, All the world's ways to shun And hide from everyone, Spitting out curses on all knavish men to left and right. But though he reared this hate for men, He loved the women even then, And never thought them enemies. WOMAN O your jaw I'd like to break. MAN

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

Tiempo atrás Norton había llegado a la convicción de que a algunas mujeres no debería permitírseles viajar en las naves espaciales; la ingravidez tenía efectos sobre sus senos que resultaban demasiado perturbadores.Ya era

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?

I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I

He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

Foi assim que um grande escândalo ameaçou o reino da Boêmia, e que os melhores planos de Mr. Sherlock Holmes foram frustrados pela sagacidade de uma mulher. Ele costumava zombar da inteligência das mulheres, mas a partir desse dia nunca mais o vi fazê-lo.

In this village the men stayed young and did the gossiping and the women aged with grey evil weariness and stood silently waiting for the men to get up and come home.

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.

El trabajo de Charcot devolvió primeramente a este tema su dignidad y dio fin a las irónicas sonrisas con las que se acogían las lamentaciones de las pacientes.

I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.

Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No." The man gives an exaggerated sigh. "I know this argument, and I don't buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it's their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.

I didn't think you were wrong about any of this. I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.

I believe that fear of being a failure plays a large part in goading many women who are ambivalent about motherhood into maternity. That, and the fear of missing out

The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken it for granted that this peculiar North European form of the subjection of women since the Reformation was characteristic of the whole past of Europe. It was a little essay by an English writer, Virginia Woolf—I confess that it is all I have read of hers,1 but she is said to have a great reputation as a novelist.

Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.

The Ionian invaders killed all the males they captured, marrying their wives and daughters; these forced marriages were said to be the origin of a Milesian law which forbade women to sit at table with their husbands or to address them by name.

Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.