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Quotes About Women

There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.
~ Siri Hustvedt
in the ancient African tradition women are the sacred key to life. They carry, then push all life into existence. They are a metaphor for wisdom. Midnight
~ Sister Souljah
Women want love, peace, unity, and shit like that. Men are tribal. I ain't tryna save the world. I'm just tryna get my piece for my crew, that's all. That's all it's about and that's the most you can ask for. What you know about that?
~ Sister Souljah
Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.
~ So I Married an Axe Murderer
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
~ Sofia Vergara
If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em.
~ Sojourner Truth
Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!
~ Sojourner Truth
Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
~ Sophia Bush
Emancipationen ville være mere troværdig, hvis den ikke så hyppigt blev repræsenteret af kvinder, der har kommet til kort i kærligheden.
~ Sophia Loren
Freddy Mercury's reflections about supersonic women are making me glad that I've never met one: they sound like a bit of a handful - not very easy-going.
~ Sophie Hannah
Silence is an ornament for women.
~ Sophocles
We have found literary references in records from the last two centuries which seem to substantiate the idea of a Cailleach priestess cult of wise women. However, as is often the case these hints ask more questions than they answer, leaving the reader to make up their own mind.
~ Sorita d'Este
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
I stress the deep need each woman has to study the scriptures. [...] Regardless of your particular circumstances, as you become more and more familiar with the truths of the scriptures, you will be more and more effective in keeping the second great commandment, to love your neighbor as yourself. Become scholars of the scriptures--not to put others down, but to lift them up!
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
~ Spike Lee
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.
~ Stacy Aumonier
An 1888 police justice came right out and declared that for women only, simply being out at night was probable cause. The way he saw it, "no decent, respectable woman would be found in the street without an escort after 10 P.M.," and therefore, he told a Women's Prison Association investigator, "any woman alone in the street after that hour ought to be arrested." Accordingly, at night police would sometimes sweep up women by the dozens.
~ Stacy Horn
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.
~ Stacy Schiff
Bints are the very devil to understand.
~ Stan Barstow
Da leitura resulta a autoconfiança, da autoconfiança resulta a coragem de ter ideias próprias. Os homens não gostam necessariamente de mulheres que lêem.
~ Stefan Bollmann
And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, everything was strange, we women lying there were strange to each other, lonely and hating one another out of misery, the same torment in that crowded ward full of chloroform and blood, screams and groans.
~ Stefan Zweig
Kad?nlar genel olarak, içlerindeki kendini verme arzusu ne kadar yak?c? olursa olsun, bu haz?r oluÅŸ durumunu inkar etmek, ürkmüÅŸ gibi yapmak veya yalanlar, yeminler ve vaatler arac?l???yla önce yat??t?r?lmas? gereken bir öfkeyi oynamak al??kanl???ndad?rlar.
~ Stefan Zweig
Después comprendí que esa mirada que atrae, que te envuelve y te desnuda a la vez, esa mirada de seductor consumado, era tu modo de mirar a todas las mujeres que se cruzaban en tu camino, a cualquier vendedora que te atendía, a cualquier criada que te abría la puerta. No eres consciente de la fuerza de esa mirada que tu ternura hacia las mujeres hace parecer más dulce y afectuosa en su insistencia.
~ Stefan Zweig
But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.
~ Stella Gibbons