Quotes About Women

must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot. Either their hands are so constructed or else our noses are good for nothing else.

Femeile iubesc foarte mult florile, da, e o ocupa?ie foarte pl?cut?!

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

While across patriarchies a common response is to view women as dangerous antagonists to be subdued, [Sudhir] Kakar says the 'defensive mode' of Indian male fantasy takes a specific form - that of 'desexualization, either of the self or of the woman', the former through celibacy and ascetic longings, and the latter through transforming the woman into either a maternal automation or an 'androgynous virgin

was Balzac, half in jest, who mused, 'What will become of the world when all women are like George Sand?

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.

To discover the history of women and art is in part to account for the way art history is written. To expose its underlying values, its assumptions, its silences and its prejudices is also to understand that the way women artists are recorded is crucial to the definition of art and artists in our society.

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).

other worlds. To adventure, and kindness, and cruelty. Cruelty that we usually think we face alone, but we don't. We discover that by sharing with each other we find strength to go on. The poems are the play's first hint of the global misogyny that we women face.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.

God-the-man has more important matters in his head: wars, catastrophes, conquests, and distant journeys … Women take care of the food.

She often reflected on how her life had turned out, and she was coming to the conclusion that the truth was simple: men needed women more than women needed men.

a complex hierarchy of cells for concubines opens up: the least desirable women are transferred upward, as though their bodies, forgotten by men, were undergoing a mysterious process of angelification;

Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

Don't they have men child psychologists in this city? Or have women established some kind of monopoly on children?

I forced myself to think rationally, something that is conveniently omitted from the upbringing of us women (otherwise my God how we would change the world!)

There was not a single smoker in Europe before the sixteenth century, because until then there was no tobacco there. Very few women smoked until the twentieth century; now the habit is more popular among young women than among young men. To say that individual differences in smoking are half caused by genes is simply not true. It all depends on the environment in which the individual is living.