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Quotes About Women

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
~ Richard Benner
Through all the drama—whether damned or not—Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Latin women, you may love them, but may not marry them."'Latin Fiancé Visa' written by Richard Clément. ISBN-13: 978-1951630430
~ Richard Clement
Having a wife and a girlfriend was not enough for Bill. The enjoyment and ego gratification of having other women, likely fueled by a persistent narcissism and a consuming need for contact and reassurance, gave rise to multiple affairs.
~ Richard D. Smith
Unlike the stereotyped carousing, hotel room-smashing, self-destructive pop star, Monroe did not smoke, drink, or use drugs. But he did love women. Many of them.
~ Richard D. Smith
Contraception was an issue of women's freedom for Keynes, who also recommended in 1925 that women's pay must be regulated to ensure fairness. It took over forty years for Keynes's pioneering views to be met by legislation: male homosexuality was partially decriminalized and contraception made available to all women under the Sexual Offences and Family Planning Acts of 1967; the injustice of women's low earnings was first addressed in the Equal Pay Act of 1970.73
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.
~ Richard Flanagan
Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.
~ Richard Llewellyn
A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.
~ Richard Peck
Women stuff' is the hidden energy behind almost all the justice issues. The movement toward nonviolence and disarmament, the movements that deal with homelessness and refugee problems, with the raping of the earth and its resources, with sexual and physical abuse issues, with the idolatry of profit and the corporation, and with the rejection of the poor will not move beyond the present impasse until the underlying issues of power, prestige, and possessions are exposed for the lie that they are.
~ Richard Rohr
Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.
~ Richard Russo
He likes women, children, dogs, really what can you fault?' Pamela wrote. 'It's just a shame he's a dictator with no respect for the law or common humanity.
~ Kate Atkinson
Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate.
~ Kate Atkinson
What had happened to women? Jackson wondered. They made him feel almost prudish. (Obviously not prudish enough to have resisted the dubious charms of one of them.) More and more these days, he had noticed, he felt like a visitor from another planet. Or the past. Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.
~ Kate Atkinson
Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing
~ Kate Atkinson
Women turn on a lunar cycle. It is not mathematics or equations but the pull of the moon which makes them bleed. It is men who seek to chart space. Women already know that space is inhabited. Each month, women feel eggs and stars and infant unborn moons die and squeeze through their wounded wombs.
~ Kate Braverman
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much - so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
Most women are moody and whimsical.
~ Kate Chopin
However, I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much—so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
She liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction.
~ Kate Chopin
What embraces, in which the lilacs were crushed between them! What ardent kisses! What pink flushes of happiness mounting the cheeks of the two women!
~ Kate Chopin
Guys rarely behave logically when it comes to women.
~ Kate White