W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.”
“Women, know your worth! If a man is violent, your worth is clearly in your astounding potential to be his personal, unpaid, and completely unqualified emotional support animal. Because nothing says 'self-respect' like a lifetime of attempting to calm a growling human.”
“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
this view.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“Women knows how to manage a home well.”
“Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.”
“Women lead with their sensuality while men lead with their actions.”
“Women leaders, like those of Pinjra Tod—who remain poised and determined in their resistance against the Hindu patriarchy—upset and undermined the wretched masculinity that has otherwise been a mainstay of the Indian newsfeed”
Source: Remember the Details
“women learn to sense who danger looks like just by catching another woman's eye from across a crowded room.”
Source: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“Women leave our hearts wounded and do not help us heal.”
Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai
“Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.”
Source: Commencement
“WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.”
“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present”
“Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.”
“Women like being kissed.”
“Women like clothes, they like shoes, they like flowers and they like people to look at them and think,‘God, she’s gorgeous.’ The more people who think that, the better it is. The one day in your life where you get all that rolled up into one is your wedding day. And it
comes with jewelry and presents and ends
with a vacation where it’s practically law that you have to wear fabulous underwear and have lots of sex.”
Source: Mystery Man
“Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.”
“Women like her caused declination of social values.”
Source: Feminomaniacs
“Women like Hild chose to join monasteries, rising to positions of great power as abbesses, gaining wisdom and influencing decision-making within the newly emerging church. They had a choice and they embraced lives that brought them in touch with the Christian continent, with new ideas, beautiful art and architecture, and a world of stories, saints and sinners that would change the ideological landscape of Britain long-term. Not until the last decades have women been able to assume such roles within the modern church, but for a short time in the seventh century they were the movers and shakers. [...]”
Source: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
“Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home.”
“Women like Joe. They fall for him in that between-trains way.”
Source: Poor George
“Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.”
“Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.”
“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.”
Source: The province of the heart
“Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores.”
Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
“Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Women like silent men. They think they're listening.”
“Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.”
“Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.”
“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”
“Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.”
“Women like to use products that other women say work. The Internet will be a big opportunity, but you cant smell a fragrance there yet.”
“Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.”
“Women, like wolves, have long been faulted, not only for crossing the boundaries made by others, but for lacking boundaries themselves. For being too loud, too big, too scattered, a problem to solve.”
Source: Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
“Women liked me because I made them laugh.”
“Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had not understood the appeal when she had started working for him. He was so very different from Matthew.”
Source: Career of Evil
“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”
“Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.”
“Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.”
“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure”
“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.”
“Women love a self-confident bald man.”
“Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.”
“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”
“Women love an honest man.”
“Women love energy and grand results.”
“Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.”