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Quotes About Women

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.
~ Neal Shusterman
think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He
~ Neal Shusterman
I think all young women are cursed with a streaks of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.
~ Neal Shusterman
Who in the face of love dares speak to me of Hell! - Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta
~ Charles Baudelaire
A langorous island, where Nature abounds With exotic trees and luscious fruit; And with men whose bodies are slim and astute, And with women whose frankness delights and astounds.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Así pues el señor G., al haberse impuesto la tarea de buscar y explicar la belleza de la modernidad, representa mujeres muy arregladas y embellecidas por todas las pompas artificiales, cualquiera que sea el estrato social al que pertenecen.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
~ Charles Bukowski
she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
~ Charles Bukowski
Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
~ Charles Bukowski
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
~ Charles Bukowski
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
~ Charles Bukowski
Every woman is different. Basically they seem to be a combination of the best and the worst—both magic and terrible. I'm glad that they exist, however.
~ Charles Bukowski
American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right. Sam, I say, that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't know how he does it but every woman he meets is crazy. he will get rid of one crazy woman but he never gets any relief— another crazy moves right in with him. it's only after they move in and begin acting more than strange that they admit to him that they've done madhouse time or that their families have a long history of mental illness.
~ Charles Bukowski
Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love
~ Charles Bukowski
good weather is like good women— it doesn't always happen and when it does it doesn't always last.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
~ Charles Bukowski
So many people are doomed by their ambition and their gathered intelligence, their bank account and savings and loan intelligence. If there is any secret to life, that secret is not to try. Let it come to you: women, dogs, death, and creation.
~ Charles Bukowski
Nobody knew how good I was, nobody knew what I could do. I was some kind of miracle. The sun tossed yellow everywhere and I cut through it, a crazy knife on wheels. My father was a beggar in the streets of India but all the women in the world loved me...
~ Charles Bukowski
arabas?na doÄŸru yürüdü. kap?y? kapatt?m. ne istediÄŸini biliyordu ve o ben deÄŸildim. bu tür çok kad?n tan?yordum.
~ Charles Bukowski
Some women are delicate things, some women are delicious and wondrous. If you want to piss on the sun, go ahead but please leave them alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
The strength of the two cultures was very different too: Japanese women instinctively understood yesterday and today and tomorrow. Call it wisdom. And they had staying power. American women only knew today and tended to come to pieces when just one day went wrong.
~ Charles Bukowski