Quotes About Women

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.

When all you know is pain you don't know that that is not normal. It is not a woman's lot to suffer, even if we've been raised that

Much of what we accomplish in the church is due to the selfless service of women.

weak men are afraid of a woman's strength.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.

To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

The passion of the collector when confronted with a rare item, the enthusiasm of a hunter who sees a fine, handsome beast, can give us no idea of the tremendous love of clothes in some women.

I like games of chance, including women.

Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise.

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.

He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.

You of all people should know that women play a bigger factor in the game of thrones than men.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.