Motivational Quotes

Women

Eve is a twofold mystery.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Women

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

Bagehot, Walter

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

Sharman, Helen

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

Dietrich, Marlene

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Paglia, Camille

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

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

10.

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

Geraldy, Paul

11.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Loos, Anita

12.

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

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Delillo, Don

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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

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Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Archard, Marcel

19.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

20.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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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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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Euripides

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

Bird, Caroline

25.

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.

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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

28.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Porter, O. Henry

30.

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

31.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

West, Mae

34.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Victoria, Queen

35.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Greer, Germaine

36.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Berger, 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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

46.

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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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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Woman is the Nigger of the World.

Lennon, John

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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.