W Quotes
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“Womanhood should be celebrated. Being a woman must not be seen as a weakness.
Womanhood should be celebrated. Being a woman must not be seen as a weakness.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.”
“Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.”
Source: The Aeneid
“Womankind is, in fact, the soup of man,
And when a man perceives that others wish
To dip their dirty fingers into his dish,
His temper flares, and bursts into a flame.”
Source: L'Ecole Des Femmes / La Critique de L'Ecole Des Femmes / Remerciment Au Roi / L'Impromptu de Versailles / La Princesse D'Elide
“Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.”
“Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.”
“Womb is not the measure of woman, wallet is not the measure of man.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.”
Source: Ulysses
“Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself.”
“Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.”
“Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.”
Source: The Hell of it All
“Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?”
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
“Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other but never to the point of self-sacrifice.”
Source: Women & madness
“Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.”
“Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“Women accept their destiny more readily than men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.”
“Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.”
“Women, after pursuit on his part, had found him disappointing in a way he had never fully understood. His appearance, he supposed, was misleading: he was tall, and to all intents and purposes agreeable to look at, but his longing — for home, for love, for consolation — let him down.”
Source: Strangers
“Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!”
Source: Lust
“Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have, the friends that of the soul that you share everything, that you witness each other's lives, that you talk their, your, heart out, that you cry with, that you ask money when you need, that.”
“Women ain't hood ornament.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet)
Why should women have to give up,
Their name when they get married,
As if they are not real people,
But hood ornament to their husband!
Why should a child be identified only,
By their father's name, not mother's,
Who by the way is the root of creation,
Who is the actual almighty creator!
It is a sad state of affairs when,
Morons peddle moronity as tradition.
Shame on us for sustaining such savagery,
As we do not put our backbone to action!
Each couple must determine the parameters
of their relationship, not some ragged tradition.
Only norm that matters is love, for in love lies emancipation.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit.”
“Women all live a double standard.”
“Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
“Women alone always order sole. It means something.”
“Women alone stir my imagination.”
Source: Three Guineas (Annotated)
“Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.”
Source: Hardball for Women: Revised Edition
“Women always ask me what I do for a living. The answer should be obvious: As little as possible.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so”
“Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.”
“Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.”
“Women always have and always will continue to date a man's potential instead of his reality. We can't help ourselves. It's in a woman's nature to be hopeful and to see the possibilities, the greatness that people possess. Hooray for us; aren't we lovely. We are, but dating someone's potential is probably the biggest mistake women make in relationships and certainly the one that leads to our romantic downfall. That's because there are three types of men: the ones that find our faith in their potential to be appealing, the ones that find our faith in their potential to be a burden...and the ones that find it appealing at first, then are crushed by the burden of their unreached potential and resentful of the women they once adored for that very faith.”
Source: It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating
“Women always have some mental reservation.”
“Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.”
“Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.”
“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
Source: White Oleander
“Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that, when he was inside them, he heated them from the inside out.
A pleasant flattery, perhaps, but one Hope would discover the truth of. For when she touched him, he did burn.”
Source: Just the Way You Are
“Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.”
“Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.”
“Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.”
Source: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.”