W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.”
“Women are capable of everything and anything”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer
“Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.”
Source: Septimus (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
“Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.”
“Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.”
“Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.”
“Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.”
“Women are complicated. We all know that.”
“Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.”
“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.”
“Women are conditioned to give themselves away.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.”
“Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.”
“Women are created to inspire….. Neither men nor women utilize this well.”
“Women are cursed, and men are the proof.”
“Women are damn resilient.”
“Women are dangerous Alex. Women keep silent once, and twice? It is spilled milk and the earth spewed out. The danger of it all starts in the kicking voice that comes with it having the womb.”
Source: In the midst of the womb
“Women are dealing with the same thing: they're dealing with expectations about how they're supposed to look and how they're supposed to interact with men. I think we're all trying to figure it all out, especially when we're teenagers, but I think the key is to listen and empathize with one another.”
“Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.”
“Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts
“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.”
“Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell”
Source: A Whisper of Roses
“Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves.... Most women-it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as-well, everyone I know is!”
“Women are described as the “emotional” gender, but I’ve found that women, Black women in particular, are very skilled at bearing feelings and suffering in silence. Black women have been doing it since we arrived on the shores in 1619. We swallow the pain of racism. We swallow the micro aggressions we experience at the office. We swallow the indignity that we feel when white women touch our hair. We swallow the fear and anxiety that comes with being wives, daughter,s and mothers to Black men and boys.”
Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.”
“Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
“Women are drawn to men who take risks. Not simply in the cultural memes of men on motorcycles, but in the scientific proof of their attraction to men with facial scars. The scars signal risk-taking, proof that the man survived a challenge and maybe even left a foe for the worse.”
Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“Women are easier loved than understood. How do you understand someone who came into existence when you were sleeping?”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.”
“Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.”
“Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.”
“Women are enslaved by their own liberation.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“Women are entitled to a few things too," said his mother.
"They got the vote and free access to the saloons," said Earl. "What do they want now--to enter the men's shot put?"
"Common courtesy," said his mother.”
Source: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
“Women are equal because they are not different any more.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.”
“Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.”
“Women are excluded from the formation of policy and the execution of business. An intense war is waged against women, to degrade them as human beings, to deny their ideas and achievements, and to suppress their own perspectives on the world.”
Source: Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation
“Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever possible for the artist to imagine a state of absolute freedom? That was my call to arms.”
“Women are experiencing new pressures that their mothers and grandmothers cannot help them understand and so they are now twice as likely to be diagnosed with anxiety disorders.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Women are extraordinary creatures!”
“Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.”
“Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.”
“Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.”
“Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.”
“Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.”
“Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year.”
Source: The Green Book
“Women are feminist by default.”
“Women are fighters. They will fight and fight and fight to get what they need, especially if they have children.”