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Quotes About Women

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.
~ Ron Swanson
Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.
~ Christopher Moore
Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.
~ Mark L. Van Name
Everybody! This is my cousin right here, and he just dethroned God's gift to Women - Griffin
~ S.C. Stephens, Reckless
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
~ Mahatma Gandhi
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.
~ Howard Zinn
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
~ Ami McKay, The Birth House
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
~ Louise Otto-Peters
Funny women are honest women.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Birth is the epicenter of women's power
~ Ani DiFranco
Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.
~ Dolores Huerta
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
~ Joyce Brothers
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
~ Shannon Hale, Austenland
Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
~ Amy Lowell
Although in principle both women believed in love, neither of them believed in romance. It was all a performance for them, what women had to do for men, what men had to do for women—it was a manner of assessing each other's value. Cora had taken an economics class in college and was fairly certain her vagina was a capitalist tool.
~ Jami Attenberg
One more drink and we're sharing our rape stories. Nearly every woman I know has one. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of these stories I could buy an enormous, plush pillow with which to smother my tear-stained face.
~ Jami Attenberg
Despite the worldwide opinion that women are loquacious and indiscreet, my own experience has led me to believe that women on the whole make better conspiratorial workers than men…. They are quicker to perceive danger … superior at being inconspicuous and generally display much caution, discretion and common sense…. Men are often prone to exaggeration and bluff and … subconsciously inclined to surround themselves with an air of mystery that sooner or later proves fatal.
~ Jan Karski
Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti who taught him that women are, first and foremost, teachers then mistresses - and above all that when you come right down to it, the female is a very different and, more o the point, a much more fascinating creature than the male.
~ Jan Kjærstad
Hillary Clinton was her protégée, even when she was the nation's First Lady and then a U.S. senator from New York. Some of the cracks in the glass ceiling were put there by Ann.
~ Jan Reid
You can't be a member of the Sinful Ladies Society if you have a husband. The original members, like me, are all old maids. We're finally starting to allow widows in, but their husbands have to be dead for at least ten years. Why ten years? Seems to take that long to deprogram them from silly man thinking.
~ Jana Deleon
Some say the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom," Gertie said. "I think the fear of women is the beginning of wisdom. At least for men.
~ Jana Deleon
Only old maids and women who'd been widowed for over ten years could apply for membership in the SLS. They had a firm belief that the close proximity of men clouded logical thinking. I tended to agree.
~ Jana Deleon
I shook my head, amazed at how much women would lower their standards simply to avoid getting a job.
~ Jana Deleon