Quotes About Women

But this was not the opinion that I would instinctively have formed when I heard Albertine say: "In any case, whether he's devoted or not, I sincerely hope I shall never see him again, since he's made us quarrel. We must never quarrel again. It isn't nice." I felt, since she had seemed to desire Saint-Loup, almost cured for the time being of the idea that she cared for women, which I had supposed to be incurable.

The Louvre and all the museums were closed and when one read at the head of an article "Sensational Exhibition" one might be certain it was not an exhibition of pictures but of dresses destined to quicken "those delicate artistic delights of which Parisian women have been too long deprived.

I said something friendly or even admiring to her. She was like almost all women, who imagine that the compliment they receive is a strict expression of the truth, that it is a judgment passed impartially, irresistibly, as though it applied to an art object unconnected with a particular individual. And so it was with a seriousness that made me blush at my own hypocrisy that she put the vain and artless question customary in such circumstances, "You like it?

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

Más tarde habría de definir la existencia de las mujeres en los hombres como en elpatio de atrás de sus mentes

Porque has de saber, Ana, que la intimidad para los hombres es la cama misma, no como para nosotras que es después de la cama, por lo tanto, mucho más larga

Ninoska mi sorrise come non potrebbe mai fare un uomo, come se le donne capissero tutto le une delle altre, dall'eternità.

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.

Las mujeres de mi especie saben entornar los ojos y les quedó el hábito ancestral de mirar por sobre el hombro. Es que una rara y contradictoria seguridad va plasmada a esos ojos y eso es lo único que hace tolerable la inseguridad cósmica que da el existir.

In a decision I dreaded but expected, five Catholic, male Justices held that RFRA trumped any rights the women might have and ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby.

Every year, 4,744,000 women in the United States are physically assaulted by their partners.

Andan las tres todo el santo día riñendo, pero cuando hay que despellejar a una mujer, están que muerden en un confite.

he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind with such a monster.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

But for the most part, women are not educated as they should be, I mean those of quality; oft their education is only to dance, sing and fiddle, to write complemental letters, to read romances, to speak some languages that are not their native...their parents take more care of their feet than their head, more of their words than their reason.

This is a story that could only have taken place in the tropics, where the climate draws sea rovers, pirates, and desperadoes from all corners of the world. They come and go, these adventurers, bedazzled and dazzling, and they leave women behind, lovers, who repeat outlandish tales, murmuring to themselves unheard, and if heard, not believed ...

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

There was some reason to call Pole heartless. His blood ran thinly in an effete body; no human emotion was urgent in him, neither love of family nor of country, and certainly not of women. But now he was forced to remember that his mother was also a woman, and to realize that her fate had lain at his door.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

disarmament was an idea just of Jews, Socialists, and hysterical women