W Quotes
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“Women are flowers, thereof, must be watered to flourish.”
“Women are flowers to be loved. Inhale their fragrance. But don't try to understand them!”
“Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.”
“Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.”
“Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.”
“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”
“Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.”
“Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.”
“Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can smell if something’s burning in the next room. They can see when our arrogance is serving us. And point out when it’s not.”
Source: Dark Horse
“Women are fully capable of doing everything.”
“Women are getting raped and killed everyday. Women are getting abused and silenced everyday . This day should be a day where we say what systems or what mechanism are in place in helping women. This day, is a day where we should be launching new projects and systems to help women. This day is a day where we should review what we did from this day last year, until now. How many women been helped and protected. How many women have been empowered. Then this day will mean more to lot of women than saying that women are imbokodo.”
“Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, "What should I do to follow this?" Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.”
“Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.”
“Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Women are great at talking and expressing their emotions, while men are great at reasoning and writing down their thoughts.”
“Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.”
“Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.”
“Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.”
“Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.”
“Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.”
“Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!”
“Women are hard on themselves.”
“Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.”
“Women are heavyweight boxers; only, they punch with words, not fists.”
“Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.”
“Women are holding up the world, we don't have time for monkey business!”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.”
“Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.”
“Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.”
“Women are hyper-visible; their social value is heavily dependent upon their physical appearance and beauty.”
Source: Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body
“Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.”
“Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.”
Source: Seeker: Book Ten
“Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.”
“Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?”
“Women are in every field and in charge more often now.
Actually,” he added with amusement, “more often than not, the only ones who give her a hard time are your kind.''
A lot of immortals are older; from a time when women weren’t in power positions. They aren’t always comfortable with her being in charge. Like you weren’t when
you slammed the door in her face. Jackie often works twice as hard to earn their respect.”
Jackie often won’t allow his help.”
Vincent could be Jackie seemed the
stubborn, hard-headed sort, determined to do it on her own. He supposed she’d had to be. Despite what Tiny said, he knew
there was still sexism in the business world today and not just among his kind.”
Source: A Bite to Remember
“Women are, in fact, so much degraded by mistaken notions of female excellence, that I do not mean to add a paradox when I assert, that this artificial weakness produces a propensity to tyrannize, and gives birth to cunning, the natural opponent of strength, which leads them to play off those contemptible infantile airs that undermine esteem even whilst they excite desire.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.”
“Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.”
Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
“Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.”
“Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated”
“Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.”
“Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.”
“Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?”
“Women are infantilized, demeaned, deprived of dignity, denied their rights, and all in the name of the rule of law. The elite approach followed within the courtrooms often asserts supremacy while excluding the poor, women, children, Dalits, tribals, and other subaltern groups. In itself, a court cannot change the law, yet, the court has the power to interpret and implement the given law in a sensitive manner while upholding the constitutional spirit and values, and that is what a litigant
expects and society hopes for. However, this is not happening.”
“Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery.”
Source: Drowning
“Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.”
“Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.”
“Women are just as intelligent, just as capable, as men. Constant pregnancies keep us from achieving our own lofty goals. Men have no such impediment, do they?”
Source: A Different Kind of Fire