W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women’s marches are a clever progressive divide and conquer strategy that not only turns women against men, but also turns women against each other in the guise of peace and solidarity. It is a brilliant tactic to employ media propaganda to make privileged women feel oppressed and then program them to think that vulgarity, exhibitionism and emasculation is empowering.”
“Women's obsession with work and independence and so on is the source of their dissatisfaction. When women surpass men, their chance for romance slips away from them.”
Source: Butter
“Women’s rights remain a continuous battle around the globe; where education as a basic right is nothing but a dream and where possession of their own bodies is a debatable matter.”
“Women's role in this world is to be women.”
“Women's role is to be women.”
“Women’s roles were vital to the success of American independence.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Women’s safety from predatory men is the issue around which all true feminists must rally and coalesce. We women can and must refuse to be relegated, as we have been in the past—as I have been in my own lifetime—to the status of prey.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“Women's sexual activity is none of our business. If they themselves volunteer the information freely, then fine. But what right do we have to know straightaway who they're fucking, how often, and in what positions?”
Source: Le Chœur des femmes
“Women’s silence is the biggest crime for which they are enslaved by society.”
“Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.”
“Women’s work is never easy, never clean.”
Source: An American Marriage
“Women's world is full of wonders.”
“Women said she was still handsome; men said she was pretty no longer. And this was probably because the qualities in her beauty that women had feared and men had followed had vanished.”
“Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.”
“Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.”
“Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.”
“Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.”
“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”
“Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.”
“Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.”
“Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.”
“Women see meaning in all things and make last minute decisions. Men, in turn, make senseless quick decisions.”
“Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.”
Source: Of Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions
“Women seek relief in tears where men seek relief in masturbation, which may be a distinction to be valued”
Source: The Whole Woman
“Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.”
“Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.”
“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.”
“Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.”
“Women seriously needed to come with an instruction manual and a bottle of whiskey.”
“Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.”
Source: The Female Imagination
“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
Source: Four Great Restoration Comedies
“Women settle for the administration of men, which is worthless. A dog will admire trees all day but only respect a sharp stick. That's what Madam Flora always says. She tells us that we need to make our own way in the world and not rely on a man for anything. Sometimes that means we have to take what we want for a change.”
Source: Love and Other Consolation Prizes
“Women settle for the admiration of men, which is worthless. A dog will admire trees all day but only respect a sharp stick. That's what Madam Flora always says. She tells us that we need to make our own way in the world and not rely on a man for anything. Sometimes that means we have to take what we want for a change.”
Source: Love and Other Consolation Prizes
“Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.”
“Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.”
“Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.”
Source: It Can't Happen Here
“Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.”
“Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.”
“Women should be obscene and not heard.”
“Women should be obscene, not heard.”
“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”
“Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.”
“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Women should be satisfied not scrutinized.”
“Women should be satisfied with their role as women.”
“Women should be someone and not something.”
Source: Mary Cassatt
“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now