WOMEN QUOTES XXV

quotations about women

But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver.... Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

HEINRICH CORNELIUS AGRIPPA

Female Pre-eminence, or, The Dignty and Excellency of that Sex above the Male

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I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

ERMA BOMBECK

Forever, Erma


The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Pamela

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What, then, is feminine as contrasted with masculine? what is womanly as compared with manly, whether in literature or in life? Men and women have many qualities in common, and resemble more than they differ from each other. But while, speaking generally, the man's main occupations lie abroad, the woman's main occupation is at home. He has to deal with public and collective interests; she has to do with private and individual interests. We need not go so far as to say, with Kingsley, that man must work and woman must weep; but at least he has to fight and to struggle, she has to solace and to heal. Ambition, sometimes high, sometimes low, but still ambition--ambition and success are the main motives and purpose of his life. Her noblest ambition is to foster domestic happiness, to bring comfort to the afflicted, and to move with unostentatious but salutary step over the vast territory of human affection. While man busies himself with the world of politics, with the world of commerce, with the rise and fall of empires, with the fortunes and fate of humanity, woman tends the hearth, visits the sick, consoles the suffering--in a word, in all she does, fulfils the sacred offices of love.

ALFRED AUSTIN

The Bridling of Pegasus

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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

An Old-Fashioned Girl


He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Silence of Colonel Bramble


If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

IVAN KLIMA

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

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Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves our respect; for of women do we not all come?

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

The Mayor of Zalamea


The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

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There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

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Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

TANITH LEE

Hunting the Shadows

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Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

BILL COSBY

attributed, The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

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As one person at the dinner table leans back, stretches, and opens their mouth in a gaping yawn, others will soon follow suit. Catching a yawn is more likely to occur between relatives than strangers, and scientists believe it's a sign of empathy. Plus, other social primates like chimps and bonobos do it, too. A new study suggests that women (traditionally branded the more empathetic sex) might be more susceptible to copycat yawning than men. Researchers surreptitiously analyzed more than 4000 real-world yawns on planes and trains, in restaurants, and in offices. They noted when someone yawned, and then whether a nearby acquaintance or friend did the same within a 3-minute period. Men and women spontaneously yawned with about the same frequency. But when someone else yawned first, women were more likely than men to follow suit. Women picked up yawns about 55% of the time, whereas men only did so 40% of the time.

LAUREL HAMERS

"Women are more empathetic than men, yawning study suggests", Science Mag, February 2, 2016


Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Cool Memories

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It is a common fate -- a woman's lot --
To waste on one the riches of her soul,
Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot
Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"The Common Lot"


It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

HOWARD ZINN

A People's History of the United States

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Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon