W Quotes
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“Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.”
“Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.”
“Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate. If every woman were to listen closely enough to her own secret song- not simply with ears, but with eyes (all three!), loins, breasts, heart, spirit, and soul- she would discover a power that she has carried with her since before the beginning of time.”
Source: The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Emp ower
“Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.”
Source: Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend
“Women have it good when it comes to masturbation. Guys, we just have our hands. For the rest of our lives, that's it. Sometimes your friend will go, 'Ever try your left hand? It's like a whole different person.' Yeah, a retarded person.”
“Women have learned a lot about life through our bodies. Our life history has been lived in our sexed bodies. Dworkin knew that the ‘learning’ women gain from our lives is not some feeling, essence, or ‘ineffable idea’ that men can claim. This learning about a woman’s life is not driven by biology but also not detached from our biology, a material condition in which our bodies help shape the circumstances of our lives. Our bodies are the sites of our oppression.”
Source: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
“Women have learned to love different parts of their bodies based on what men like…But I wonder which parts of a woman’s body does she like for herself?”
Source: Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud
“Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.”
“Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.”
“Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.”
“Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.”
“Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.”
“Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.”
“Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.”
“Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.”
“Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”
“Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.”
“Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.”
“Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.”
“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!”
“Women have no government.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
Source: Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters
“Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.”
“Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.”
Source: A Casual Commentary
“Women have only had the vote for less than 100 years. Before that, we were wives and essentially kind of property. We grew up, and our parents wanted us to get married, so somebody else could look after us. And in the last few decades, it's changed. We can now have families without men. But, unfortunately, the dialogue, the old boys club, the locker room talk, has mysteriously not changed at all.”
“Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.”
“Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.”
“Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom.
It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt.
Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.”
Source: Broken Pieces
“Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.”
“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.”
“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“Women have sex with whoever they want and anytime they want. Meanwhile man have sex when they can.
Man marry whoever they want , whenever they want. Meanwhile woman marry when they can.”
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”
“Women have so much to contribute to the cybersecurity field. Breaking barriers is more than just populating the cybersecurity space with a female presence, but about contributing fresh and different perspectives to a dynamic landscape that requires agile and adaptable thinking.”
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”
“Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.”
“Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.”
“Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.”
“Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.”
“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
“Women have the right to choose what do with their own bodies. They can take it in the cooch or in the pooper. But that's where their right to choose stops, in my opinion.”
“Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.”
“Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”
Source: Silences
“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.”