W Quotes
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“Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.”
“Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.”
“Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.”
“Women differ in the exact male height they prefer, but almost always prefer a man taller than themselves. Different ethnic groups may prefer different facial features, but all prefer faces that are symmetrical and averagely shaped for their population. If you don't look for the universals of human beauty at the right level of description, you will not find them.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Women differ like snowflakes.”
“Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.”
“Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.”
Source: Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
“Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.”
“Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.”
“Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”
“Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.”
“Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.”
“Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.”
“Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.”
“Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“Women do it all the time to look younger and it would make perfect sense if one of them ever came out looking younger - but they don't. They just look the same; they all get plastic surgery face. No matter who they look like going in, they all come out looking like the girl from the band on 'The Muppet Show.”
“Women do make mistakes. They give birth to men.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Women do most delight in revenge.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.”
“Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.”
“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”
“Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.”
Source: Smoking and Drinking
“Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.”
“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.”
“Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen”
“Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance”
“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
“Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.”
“Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.”
“Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.”
“Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.”
“Women do not need to be changed, adjusted, domesticated, moulded, formed, or coddled. We need space and a runway.”
Source: Nothing But the Truth
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.”
“Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.”
“Women do not write books about men—a fact that I could not help welcoming with relief, for if I had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set pen to paper.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.”
Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
“Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.”
“women
don't endure
simply because
we can;
no,
women endure
because we aren't
given any other
choice.
- they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”
Source: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“Women don't fall in love with monsters. They only watch them [men] turn into them.”
Source: The Two-Faced Queen
“Women don't have milder autism because of their biology. People who are marginalized have their autism ignored because of their peripheral status in society.”
Source: Divergent Mind, NeuroTribes & Unmasking Autism 3 Books Collection Set
“Women don't have to be in a relationship to feel like a Queen. I believe that a woman has the ability to crown herself. To hold herself when others refuse to. Choosing herself when others don't. Loving herself when others are incapable.”
“Women don't have wisdom or knowledge in political things.”
Source: Shōgun, Volume 1