Motivational Quotes

Women

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

Best Quotes about Women

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Angelou, Maya

Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!

Kundera, Milan

Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dowling, Colette

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to denythe fact that I love to be with men.

Hawn, Goldie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Crowne, John

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

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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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When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Gray, John

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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Aristophanes

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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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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Angelis, Barbara De

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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Aristotle

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

Archard, Marcel

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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Rowland, Helen

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Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Laing, Dilys

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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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It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Clark, Eugenie

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Berger, John

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A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Reagan, Nancy

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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Cartland, Barbara

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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Eliot, George

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Diderot, Denis

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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Woolf, Virginia

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Austen, Jane

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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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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

Austen, Jane

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Brookner, Anita

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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Chanel, Coco

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The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Rankin, Jeannette

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A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

Greer, Germaine

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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Reik, Theodor

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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Luce, Clare Boothe

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

Mencken, H. L.

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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

James, Henry

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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

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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 clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer

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Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Pizzey, Erin

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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Curtis, George William

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

Astell, Mary

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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

Mencken, H. L.