W Quotes
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“Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.”
“Women blame men for their own singlehood.”
“Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.”
“Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.”
“Women brought life but the most important origin stories spoke the real truth, which was that women more often brought death.”
Source: The Book of Phoenix
“women, by force of will and energy, are quite capable of doing certain jobs that they previously had been denied. This theory is constantly disputed by those who claim women's inferiority due to sexual difference, which, it is said, seems to be an immutable law of nature. But there is nothing more false than to attempt in this way to uphold the permanent superiority of men.”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
“Women came in only two types: whores or dutiful slaves to their families. Good girls would not go to a park alone. Good girls would be content with having men breathe the fresh air on their behalf, take in all the oxygen one required to keep women at bay.”
Source: Daughters of Smoke and Fire
“Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”
Source: Dame Agatha abroad
“Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.”
“Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”
Source: Some everyday folk and dawn
“Women can be beautiful and smart. They just choose to play down their intelligence so they can survive and get along with others during the times in history when women didn't have equal rights, couldn't speak out, and were considered property. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“Women can be both emotional and rational. Labeling women as unpredictable, irrational, or crazy because of the emotional expression of hormonal fluctuations is a way of reinforcing exploitation, degradation, and ignorance.”
Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“Women can be crueller even than men.”
Source: Sovereign
“Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.”
“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
Source: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy
“Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.”
“Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.”
“Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.”
“Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.”
“Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.”
“Women can do nothing that has permanence.”
Source: Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist
“Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.”
“Women can end all wars right now, just deny sex to your partners until they stop fighting.”
“Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.”
“Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.”
“Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.”
“Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?”
“Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.”
“Women can have their own kids and not have a husband or not have a partner.”
“Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.”
“Women can invest a tremendous amount of care and devotion into others, but by becoming sometimes dependent on being needed, they simultaneously become self-destructive. By their self-imposed dependence on being considered necessary, they deny their own freedom and agency, sacrificing their individuality and autonomy. (" Sweet Smell of Submission")”
“Women can learn a lot about a guy because women, for the most part, want a guy to care about their feelings, to be a guy that is responsible. Women want to attract you, but they want you to know more how they feel. When a guy has a great relationship with a dog, it really says a lot about him.”
“Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.”
“Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.”
“Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.”
Source: Degas by Degas
“Women can rarely write dark. They try, sure they try, but it’s like a flower, or a butterfly saying to you, I am bad, I am evil.”
“Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.”
“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”
Source: The woman in white
“Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.”
“Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.”
“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.”
“Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.”
“Women can't be charged more than men for our health insurance.”
“Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.”
“Women can't forgive failure.”
“Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.”