WOMEN QUOTES IV
quotations about women
I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
New Statesman, January 3, 2013
Women's eyes have pierced more hearts than ever did the bullets of war.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Somewhere along the lines, women let someone tell us that we can't have it all. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Really? Well then what is the point of serving me the cake if I can't eat it as well?
TAMARA ANGELA GRANT
"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017
I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement -- they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
interview, BBC, December 13, 2005
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGER
Ways of Seeing
Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Sadly, "respecting" women just because they fill a narrow role misogyny defines as "respectable" is actually the opposite of respecting women. People who can't or won't respect women simply because women are human beings don't respect women at all.
JULIA O'DONNELL
"Women are so much more than just sisters, mothers, wives", The Badger Herald, March 14, 2017
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
RAY BRADBURY
Something Wicked This Way Comes
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER
New York World, August 16, 1925
The woman brings her unique wisdom, her ability to bring life and build it up, laying down the natural foundations and a delicate and ethical approach to the education of children. She has within her a unique treasure trove which no other creation has.
YIGAL LEVINSTEIN
Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2017
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Strange Stories
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The most trying misfortune that can befall a man, is to be domesticated with a bad-tempered woman.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
When Man and Woman die, as Poets sung,
His Heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739