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Quotes About Women

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
~ William Shakespeare
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
~ Mort Sahl
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
~ Mae West
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex! Source of pain! Let a poor innocent person go in peace.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
~ Walt Disney
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully reminded of it.
~ Mark Twain
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree
~ Richard Harris
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
~ Earl Warren
It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again
~ Nora Ephron
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
~ Albert Einstein
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
~ Helen Rowland
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~ Bertrand Russell
Never harbor regrets. Such useless emotions detract from an avowed purpose. Spare neither tears nor sentiment, which sap strength and energy. Rather, shake the dust of encumbering people and places from your feet and march bravely into the future. We are the women of the world, and we will not be denied.
~ Unknown
If God is male, then the male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
~ Mary Daly
Since patriarchy is the perpetual poorhouse in which women are stored/restored, afflicted with poverty of spirit, imagination, intellect, passion, physical vigor, as well as economic poverty, it is clear - and clearer than ever - that we have basically Nothing to loose.
~ Mary Daly
Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
~ Mary Doria Russell
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
~ Mary Gordon
People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
~ Mary Gordon
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
~ Mary Harris Jones
There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men.
~ Mary Jo Putney