Quotes About Women

You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit

So don't try to scare me with your phony Lord business. I wonder if you men don't trump up all that religious stuff to keep women in line.

To do so is condescending to that group, we don't hold them up to the same moral standard to which we hold ourselves, and it is grossly unfair to the women, who are simply being told that because they are tribal women, or whatever, they do not enjoy the same guarantees of liberty that other women do.

I've been told that I don't like women. I do like women. I think chicks are cool. I've been told that men don't like women, period. Oh yeah? Who does then? Because women don't like women. Sometimes life looks very familiar. Life often has that familiar look in its eyes. Life is all vendetta, conspiracy, strong feeling, roused pride, self-belief, belief in the justice of its tides and floods. Here is a secret that nobody knows: God is a woman. Look around! Of course She is.

Girls, in those days, couldn't do anything to you (they couldn't call the lawyers, the tabloids, the cops) except kill themselves or get pregnant. All they had was life: they could augment it, they could bear it away. They could subtract from it or they could add to it; and that was all.

Women can die gently -.. -. Men always die in torment. Why? Towards the end, men break the habit of a lifetime, and start blaming themselves, with full male severity. Women break a habit too, and start blaming themselves no longer. They forgive.

They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir? Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it.

She, too, wanted "the option of random sex with no emotional commitment" when in the mood for physical release, though she predicted that if women also had bathhouses, they would be "less competitive than the gay men's baths, more laughter would ring in the sauna, and you'd touch not only to fuck but just to touch.

for the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act.

A campanha pelo direito de voto das mulheres era, contudo, "um movimento ridículo". O voto para as mulheres devia ser evitado. "Uma vez que se conceda o voto a um grande número de mulheres, que constituem a maior parte da sociedade", advertiu ele, "todo o poder passará para as mãos delas".

As obvious as it may be that it's important to follow the designer's directions when it comes to assembling shelves, it's a point so many women (and men) miss when it comes to "assembling" their lives and relationships. The fact is, any time we fail to consult the Designer and follow the directions He has provided, we're going to end up with a mess!

The Lord created His girls to have responsive spirits. Women are responders. Responding is in our nature. We will either respond to good or we will respond to evil. We will either respond to truth or be swayed by lies. If we don't establish the practice of receiving and responding to God's Word, we will be more vulnerable to be receptive and responsive to the wrong kinds of men, ideas, or counsel.

women need solitude in our lives to refill our well and garner strength to face life's deeper questions.

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said. But which half did they mean?

Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species

Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened. 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 shall be back in an hour or two, I remarked.

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

Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies--they know better.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

Byron, in "Don Juan", face o satira amara la adresa femeilor care transforma dragostea intr-o "afacere de cap" uitind ca au "inima". Capul vine dupa inima, caci nu el este centrul corpului, ci o dezvoltare a lui. Cind moare un erou i se imbalsameaza inima, in timp ce filozofii si poetii au parte, dupa moarte, de cercetarea amanuntita a craniului si creierului.

Women always take things personally and their mind is designed to achieve personal ends.

The twins were too young to know that these were only history's henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.