Motivational Quotes

Women

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

Best Quotes about Women

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Baudelaire, Charles

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.

Proverb, Italian

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

Irving, Washington

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Proust, Marcel

A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman? If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

Cartland, Barbara

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Gray, John

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Wycherley, William

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Archard, Marcel

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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Byron, Lord

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I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Korda, Michael

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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Bagehot, Walter

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Byron, Lord

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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry,A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Stephens, James

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Geraldy, Paul

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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.

Halsey, Albert

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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Mandeville, Bernard

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To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.

Yeats, William Butler

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A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike.

Weisstein, Naomi

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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

Nin, Anais

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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Eliot, George

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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Maciver, Robert M.

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Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

Gray, John

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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Antrim, Minna

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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Bogan, Louise

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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.

Davis, Evan

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Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.

Kempton, Sally

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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.

Dowling, Colette

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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Harge, Derrick

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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Brookner, Anita

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To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

Meir, Golda

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Boccaccio, Giovanni

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The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

Cher

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He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Shakespeare, William

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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Duras, Marguerite

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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.

Thatcher, Margaret