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Quotes About Women

And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!
~ Sir John Betjeman
The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When
~ Siri Hustvedt
No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The Five lived in a ferocious present because unlike the young, who entertain their finality in a remote, philosophical way, these women knew that death was not abstract.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The pleasure was in the staging, the idea of ourselves as a repetition of others. I knew this without saying it, felt my femininity as the game of all women, a mysterious identification in which I lost myself.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
~ Dionne Brand
We won with everything! We won with women! I love the women! We won with evangelicals. Like, unbelievable.
~ Donald Trump
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
~ H. L. Mencken
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
~ John Lyly
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
~ Laura Dern
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
~ Mario Lopez
Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.
~ Will Smith
I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
~ Jack Nicholson
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.
~ Olga Broumas
I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.
~ Ricky Martin
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I love women, and I just think that they're great. I mean, yes, they can be a little nutty sometimes, but they're great.
~ Tyler Blackburn
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
~ Gelett Burgess
Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.
~ Walter Russell
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
~ Anne Carson
You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.
~ Bob Dylan
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes—possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.
~ Max Beerbohm