Quotes About Women

Their real strength was their ears: Theseus and Hercules were lifelong learners and equal-opportunity students, always seeking advice and just as happy to get it from women. That was the mark of a hero and the signature of pankration: total power and knowledge.

Ultrarunning seemed to be an alternative universe where none of planet Earth's rules applied: women were stronger than men; old men were stronger than youngsters; Stone Age guys in sandals were stronger than everybody. And the mileage! The sheer stress on their legs was off the charts.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

The magic of sex is itís acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, thereís no storage problem.

You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old.

It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.

It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper:

Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' 'What?' 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

That was the problem with women falling out of love; the veil of romance fell away from their eyes, and they looked in and could read you.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

There isn't a woman I know who hasn't said they wished they'd listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women's lives are concerned: mothering, money, and men.

Hundreds of thousands of working women who labour with their brains are just as much exploited by the action of capitalists and middle-men as the millions of women who work with their hands, because the whole capitalist class hangs together, and defends its interests.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

As if ripping from the depths of the earth the knotted roots of a rare tree, that's how I write to you, and those roots as if they were powerful tentacles like voluminous naked bodies of strong women entwined by serpents and by carnal desires for fulfillment, and all this is the prayer of a black mass, and a creeping plea for amen: because the bad is unprotected and needs the approval of God: that is creation.

All women are fatal. But maybe all men are fatal too, to almost all women? I say maybe, and I say almost. What do we know about the other sex?

The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.

It was being published, even after his death, that brought Franz Kafka alive: otherwise he would have been just a man who got nowhere with women.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were no modern women like her. Abigail, God love her, shot back that women might act frivolous and flighty, but only because men wanted them to.

But though love laughs at difference in age, friendship, especially between two women, is more acutely conscious of it.

The question refers to two young women residing at your house who have criminal records for engaging in prostitution." "Tsk, tsk, and they're plying their trade from my house?" "Not exactly." "That's similar to 'no', isn't it?

But not one sensible argument as to why unarmed women and children and old people posed a threat to the nation.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.