W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.”
“Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.”
“Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.”
Source: Veil of Night: A Novel
“Women were always telling each other to be happy with what they had, that it was the small things that mattered most. And she was happy and appreciative, but she didn't mean that the big things weren't important either. It didn't mean that the big things outside world weren't worth going after. Excitement, drive, success--these were the things that fueled a woman too. They gave her gravitas--weight in the world. How could a woman really be content unless she knew that she'd lived up to her true potential, or at least given her best shot?”
Source: Lipstick Jungle
“Women were always telling each other to be happy with what they had, that it was the small things that mattered most. And she was happyand appreaciative, but she didn't mean that the big thing weren't important either. It didn't mean that the big things outside world weren't worth going after. Excitement,n drive, success--these were the things fueled a woman too. They gave her gravitas--weight in the world. How could a woman really be content unless she knew that she'd lived up to her true potential, or at least goven her best shot?”
“women were beyond me.
they saw something
depraved.
there was one waitress
a little older than
I, she rather smiled,
lingered when she
brought my
coffee.
that was plenty for
me, that was
enough.
- Young in New Orleans”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”
Source: Staring at the sun
“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.”
Source: Mortal Danger
“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”
“Women were different from men in such matters. Was it that they were, instead of more sensitive, as reputed, more callous, and less romantic ; or were they more heroic?”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
“Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.”
“Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.”
“Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.”
Source: Pleasure
“Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.”
Source: The Hindus: An Alternative History
“Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.”
Source: Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89
“Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.”
“Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.
(Zoe on meeting Justus)”
Source: Sterling
“Women were held together by unseen connections that made the world believe they were walking wonders.”
Source: The Fabled Earth
“Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.”
“Women were made to be women.”
“Women were made to empower!
Women were made to be fierce!
Women are strong!
Women are creative!
Happy International Women's Day!”
“Women were made to wonder.”
“Women were more concerned about their skirts getting caught up in the wheels, and sat astride wearing Bloomers which turned them into Lesbians.”
Source: The Trouble With Women
“Women were more likely than men to report receiving threats of sexual assault or rape, violence or death, being followed or stalked, and publication of their personal details without permission in order to intimidate them.”
Source: Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout
“Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.”
Source: Jephte's Daughter
“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “”
Source: Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “women's work”, which was—by definition— insignificant, tedious, low status, and noncreative. In the golden age of Hollywood, women could be found in nearly every department of every studio, minding the details that might otherwise get in the way of more important, prestigious, or creative work (a.k.a. men's work).
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
Source: Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production
“Women were
not supposed to know anything at all, since it was the first step toward
the initiation to manhood.”
Source: Purple Hibiscus
“Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.”
“Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.”
“Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.”
“Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Women were something best bought, he’d found. Pay them, f*ck them, and send them away in the morning. That way avoided tears, recriminations, and feminine disappointment. Oh, and small things like being slapped across the face. Mick rubbed his jaw. But Silence wasn’t one of his whores, as Harry had pointed out. Mick couldn’t send her away. And he couldn’t let her starve herself—he wouldn’t let anyone hurt her, including herself.”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith”
“Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.”
“Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.”
“Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.”
Source: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX
“Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.”
“Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.”
“Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.”
“Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.”
Source: Cattle Baron: Nanny Needed
“Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods - like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.Abandoned princesses and Hollywood actresses have provided numerous examples of this.”
“Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.”
“Women when they want to be made to feel good about themselves. To be loved, respected, admired. They go to the single guys whom they say are boring and lame. When they want money, to act ratched, wild, and to be taken advantage of. They go for criminals, bad boys, married men or men who are already in a relationship.”
“Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?”
Source: Sower of Dreams
“Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.”
“Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men’s sense that they are more important than women, as a group.”
Source: Speaking Truth to Power