Quotes About Women
Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
~ George Byron
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
~ George Clooney
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
~ George Farquhar
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To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility. Many will dismiss feminism as merely a matter of domestic logistics. . . . Mention procreation, and they talk about the population explosion. They believe it is just as well that many women indicate disinterest in having children.
~ George Gilder
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Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.
~ Ilona Andrews
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The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy.
~ Ilona Andrews
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Human women, like vampire women, come in all varieties. For example, I don't like violence, but I will kill to protect my family and my guests.
~ Ilona Andrews
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Women usually respond well to drama and decisive declarations of lust." "I'm not that sort of a woman. Unfortunately for you, I'm not for sale.
~ Ilona Andrews
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Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.
~ Ina May Gaskin
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We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. —Thomas Huxley
~ Ina May Gaskin
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Midwives provide all the prenatal care healthy women need. The midwifery ideal is to work with each woman and her family to identify her unique physical, social, and emotional needs. In general, midwifery care is associated with fewer episiotomies, fewer instrumental deliveries, fewer epidurals, and fewer cesarean sections. Midwives are trained to identify the relatively small percentage of births in which complications develop and to refer these to obstetricians.
~ Ina May Gaskin
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Please let us get back to a normal way of life, whatever it might be; these wars, revolutions, great historical upheavals might be exciting to men, but to women ââ'¬Â¦ Women felt nothing but boredom. She was positive that every woman would agree with her: they were tired of crying, bored to death by all these noble words and noble feelings!
~ Irene Nemirovsky
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I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The trouble with you, Charles, is that basically you despise women, whereas I, in spite of some appearances to the contrary, do not. I don't despise women. I was in love with all Shakespeare's heroines before I was twelve. But they don't exist, dear man, that's the point. They live in the never-never land of art, all tricked out in Shakespeare's wit and wisdom, and mock us from there, filling us with false hopes and empty dreams. The real thing is spite and lies and arguments about money.
~ Iris Murdoch
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I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Perhaps he would achieve some sort of peace, the peace of an elderly man, a peace of cosy retirement without angels. Without women too, he thought.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal.
~ Irvine Welsh
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It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.
~ Irvine Welsh
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Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly did not), their abstraction from Time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort Reality as was the abstraction of a man.
~ Isaac Asimov
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that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
~ Isaac Asimov
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You see, Peter, machines can't fall in love, but--even when it's hopeless and horrifying--women can!
~ Isaac Asimov
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Women had ruined him, but they had also showed him compassion.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
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This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved.
~ Isabel Allende
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