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Quotes About Perception

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~ Thomas Hardy
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
~ Helene Cixous
When the candles are out all women are fair
~ Plutarch
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
~ Tyra Banks
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
~ Cyril Connolly
And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then?
~ Victor Hugo
Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.
~ Bill Gates
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.
~ Unknown
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
~ Ani DiFranco
Women, then, are only children of a larger growth
~ Lord Chesterfield
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail
~ Mark Twain
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
~ Baltasar Gracian
A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man
~ Unknown
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~ Max Beerbohm
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
~ Minna Antrim
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
~ Kate Millett
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
~ Tyra Banks
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
~ Joan Crawford
In the faces of men and women I see God.
~ Walt Whitman
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
~ Evan Davis