W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.”
“Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'”
“Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.”
“Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.”
“Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.”
“Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.”
Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
“Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.”
Source: A James Stephens Reader
“Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it”
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
“Women and children are the tradition-carriers of the world. They pass on the folklore of hearth and kitchen, old beliefs, rites, superstitions, rituals, and customs. In the days when folklorists were inclined to make sweeping statements about the "strong feminine element" in folklore, it was argued that women and children were responsive to this field “because its origin antedates the emergence of reason." For many years old wives' tales were the target of ridicule, but in many old wives' tales there was, we know today, more than a bit of truth.”
Source: Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex
“Women and children were not afforded the rights of citizenship, of subjecthood, of being. They lived under threat of being erased, hidden, buried. This is why my mother tells me - halting, hesitating - that in her day it was the worst thing in the world for a girl to find herself pregnant, but worse still was for her to talk about it.”
Source: In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
“Women and dogs," Julio said. "A good one only needs to be beat two or three times." He laughed.”
Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
“Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.”
“Women and elephants never forget.”
Source: Dorothy Parker
“Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens” it. Please. You know what’s “cheap”? When men think they’re entitled to free and unlimited care, attention, and sex. That’s cheap.”
Source: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.”
Source: A Cynic Looks at Life
“Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.”
“Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.”
“women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.”
“Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.”
“Women and girls cannot access full humanity and the rights and opportunities of full
human status while the idea that there are personality traits and appearance norms that are naturally and essentially associated with
girls and women still has social currency and serves to control and limit their lives.”
Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn't die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.”
“Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.”
“Women and girls need single sex toilets to avoid men's sexual harassment and aggression. In the UK in 2018, it was reported that just under 90% of complaints regarding changing room sexual assaults, voyeurism and harassment were about incidents in unisex facilities, and two thirds of all sexual harassment in leisure centres and public swimming pools were in unisex changing rooms.”
Source: Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination
“Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.”
“Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.”
“Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.”
“Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.”
“Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.”
Source: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
“Women and men are equal human beings.”
“Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors.”
“Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction.”
“Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.”
Source: Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
“Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.”
“Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit.”
“Women and men in scrubs swept into the room and checked the monitors and the bags. They strode out, nodded at the quartet slumped in chairs against the wall, and scuffed down the hall. Nurses changed shifts, moved the life of the place along while patients and visitors waited frozen, locked into little boxes of concern and fear.
The strange hours of the pre-dawn arrived, when the hospital hushed even as the business of sickness and death ground on.”
“Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.”
“Women and men. They played by different rules because the rules applied to them were different. It was very simple. It was the women who got pregnant and the women who ended up with the kids. All the rest stemmed from that. So women had to learn to protect themselves, had to be wary and careful. The way the rules had been set up, everything was against them.”
Source: The Women's Room
“Women and men who are pro-life in every sense of the word marched side-by-side with pro-choice women because they care about so many common issues. We are already joined in common-cause to end sex-trafficking, pornography, discrimination, bullying, and a host of other issues.”
“Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.”
“Women and men with bodies covered in feathers and heads crowned with tiny curved horns dangled from the ceiling, twirling and spinning around thick sheets of gold or magenta silk that hung like massive party ribbons. Below them, performers in costumes made of fur, more feathers and paint slathered over skin, prowled and crawled as if they were wild chimeras escaped from another world. Tella saw performers dressed to look like tigers with dragon wings, horses with forked tails, snakes with lion manes, and wolves with ram horns, who growled and nipped and sometimes licked at the hells of guests. There were a few low balconies where shirtless men with wings as large as angels' and fallen stars pushed grinning couples back and forth on giant swings hanging from canopies of thorns and flowers.”
“Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.”
“Women and music should not be dated.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“Women and Nature have almost the same reactions. Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm”
Source: Murder in Mesopotamia
“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”
Source: Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc
“Women and ocean have that undulating factor to draw one to the state of peace or chaos within. It all depends on their mood!”