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Quotes About Women

Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.
~ Orson Scott Card
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...
~ Orson Welles
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
~ Oscar Wilde
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.' 'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
~ Oscar Wilde
LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.
~ Oscar Wilde
This is the Victorian era, she said. Women didn't have to make sense.
~ Connie Willis
If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
~ Coretta Scott King
Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. Women don't want to fix anything. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is you can do anything to them except bore them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All the trouble I ever was in, said Ballard, was caused by whiskey or women or both.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He saw men killed with guns and with knives and with ropes and he saw women fought over to the death whose value they themselves set at two dollars. He saw ships from the land of China
~ Cormac McCarthy
And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one's heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and to know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All the trouble I ever was in, said Ballard, was caused by whiskey or women or both. He'd often heard men say as much. All the trouble I ever was in was caused by gettin caught, said the black.
~ Cormac McCarthy