Quotes About Women

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.