W Quotes
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“Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Women are strangers in the country of man.”
“Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.”
“Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.”
“Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.”
“Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.”
“Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.”
“Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.”
Source: Blow Me Down
“Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.”
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.”
“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
“Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it.”
Source: Token Black Girl
“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”
Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women
“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
Source: A Woman at Thirty
“Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.”
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.”
“Women are the architects of society”
“Women are the backbone of many structures. When you build women, you have built those structures. When you break them, you have broken those structures. That is why women empowerment should never be taken for granted.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Women are the best companions for men.”
“Women are the best helpers for men.”
“Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.”
“Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail.”
“Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.”
“Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.”
Source: Hunting Ground
“Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.”
“Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.”
“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)”
“Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.”
“Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.”
“Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.”
“Women are the fairer sex, not the weaker.”
“Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.”
“Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.”
“Women are the foundation of the family and society. If the foundation is strong, a successful family and society will emerge. If the foundation is loose, a collapsed family and society will emerge.”
“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”
Source: The province of the heart
“Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“Women are the guardians of morality.”
“Women are the harshest critics of other women.”
“Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.”
“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.”
“Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.”
“Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.”
“Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.”
“Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
“Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, will remain free from diseases.”
“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”
“Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency