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Quotes About Women

Unfortunately, it seems that the way Usenet is set up, women are the zebras, and men are the lions, and the Internet is one big Serenghetti.
~ Unknown
Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment
~ Arnold Bennett
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
~ Angela Carter
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
~ Minna Antrim
ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.
~ Honus Wagner
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
~ Taslima Nasrin
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
~ Bible
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
~ Lester Bangs
I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
~ Oscar Wilde
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
~ Senator John Kerry
Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.
~ Bible
A low trick I hate to stoop to is tying and untying my shoelaces. It seems to fascinate audiences probably because so many women in the audience have their shoes off, or wish they did.
~ Unknown
I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
~ Bible
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
~ Bill Copeland
I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.
~ Billie Jean King
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
~ Anita Brookner
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
~ Miriam Beard
In the faces of men and women I see God.
~ Walt Whitman
The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.
~ Wangari Maathai
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
~ Bible