Motivational Quotes

Women

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

- Harge, Derrick

Best Quotes about Women

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Astell, Mary

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

Bird, Caroline

It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.

James, Selma

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

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

Oakley, Ann

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Byron, Lord

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?

Freud, Sigmund

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

Festa, Linda

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

10.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Curtis, George William

11.

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.

Crowne, John

13.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Archard, Marcel

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Janeway, Elizabeth

18.

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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Woolf, Virginia

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Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Dior, Christian

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

West, Mae

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Vanbrugh, Sir John

26.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Carter, Angela

27.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

Feather, William

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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

31.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Friedan, Betty

33.

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

Gray, John

34.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Grable, Betty

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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Jong, Erica

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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Millet, Kate

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Millet, Kate

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I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?

Madonna

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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

44.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

46.

Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.

Sade, Marquis De

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Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Farquhar, George

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Herzen, Alexander

49.

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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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