Quotes About Women

Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

she was busily wondering how women could have survived marriage throughout the ages if knitting had not been invented,

I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

When men committed crimes in the 1930s, they were lauded as public enemies and assigned status as daring desperadoes. Their women were consigned to the back alleys of insults and innuendo.

these women and men were able to sustain work "outside of the employment context," to cobble together not only a better living but a more meaningful life.

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.

problems around sleeping, fatigue, boredom, killing time, storage, health, sex, along with harassment and dozens of unpredictable difficulties encountered on the street -- were some of the 'little murders of everyday life' that confronted homeless women.

For most homeless women, then, jobs by themselves were not a way out of homelessness, even if one discounted the large number of women who were too old, too sick, or otherwise too disabled to work.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

eres de los que piensan que una mujer cerca arregla el mundo. Mendieta no era de ésos. Al contrario, creo que si el mundo estuviera gobernado por mujeres el caos sería generalizado.

You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new wine, good only before being uncorked.

Undoubtedly I will receive letters asking about the coney's kiss. The truth is that I made it up. There are many Renaissance jokes about coneys, or rabbits. The word was associated with women, particularly with their sexual parts, and young men in plays tend to boast of their coney-catching ways. I've never read a joke about a coney's kiss: One has to hope that that doesn't reflect a lack of imagination of [sic] the part of sixteenth-century men.

In my opinion, a great many doctors in this kingdom should be hanged, drawn, and quartered. They are all too likely to hand out dangerous medicines—to women, in particular—without a thought for what it does to the body and spirit.

WOMEN, SEXUAL ROLES AND CHILDREN There is much evidence that women held their own in Viking society, even though men had the upper hand. Many exercised independent authority and were respected as members of their own social class, and their status may have improved during the Viking Age, since men were often away on long military expeditions or trading voyages, leaving the women in charge of everything at home.

In pagan times women were buried with accoutrements that reflected the female role in society. Instead of the tools, weapons and hunting dogs that accompanied men, women took household utensils, implements for needlework, spinning and weaving, jewellery and lapdogs with them on their journey to the next life.

I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.

When we think of the Berlin salons in the Romantic period, of the role played in them by a Henrietta Herz or a Rachel Levin, of the friendship between the latter and Crown Prince Louis-Ferdinand; and when we then think that if such women had lived in this century they would have died in some gas chamber, we cannot help considering the belief in progress as the falsest and stupidest of superstitions.

Pero creo que si todas las mujeres hablasen lo que piensan, como hice yo por culpa del champagne, más de cuatro y más de ocho se verían peor que esta individua".