W Quotes
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“Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.”
“Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.”
Source: How to get whatever you want out of life
“Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.”
“Women who are either indisputably beautiful or indisputably ugly are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces, for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome; but not hearing often that she is so is the more grateful and the more obliged to the few who tell her so; whereas a decided and conscious beauty looks upon every tribute paid to her beauty only as her due, but wants to shine and to be considered on the side of her understanding…”
Source: LETTERS TO HIS SON
“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Women who are in touch with their own sensuality make efficient lovers.”
“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.”
“Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees - especially in STEM fields - benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.”
“Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world”
“Women who are not boring have realized that men do not like sex as much as it is generally believed.”
“Women who are not in touch with their sensuality have minds that are hostile toward God and, inadvertently, toward men.”
“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.”
Source: Pilgrimage
“Women who are not truly in touch with their sensuality have minds that are hostile toward God and, inadvertently, toward men.”
“Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.”
“Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.”
“Women who are truly in touch with their sensuality don’t need a high-earning man for a living, they MAKE high-value men for a living.”
“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”
Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.”
“Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.”
“Women who channel their energies toward reaching the top of corporate America undermine the struggles of women trying to realize institutional change by organizing unions and implementing laws that protect women (and men) in the workplace.”
Source: The New Prophets of Capital
“Women who come to see me admit that they've never looked at their sex organ; they've never seen their clitoris. Now tell me if that isn't a form of being psychologically genitally mutilated? For them, the clitoris doesn't exist, but we're worried about women in Africa!”
“Women, who constitute a huge and growing market for pornography, should be taken seriously as consumers.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.”
“Women who do not enjoy their sensuality seldom have much capacity for enjoyment of any sort.”
“Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.”
“Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.”
“Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.”
“Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be”
“Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.”
“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.”
“Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.”
“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those who have not. In fact, that becomes their default setting.”
“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those who have not. In fact, that becomes their default setting. They are a perfect representation of the "early bird catches the fattest worm" adage.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those who have not. In fact, that becomes their default setting. They somehow perfectly represent the 'early bird catches the fattest worm' adage.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those who have not. In fact, that becomes their "new" default setting.”
“Women who have power are always feared.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.”
“Women who have the lion's share of responsibility for generating new life are being linguistically and legally erased, their sports and safe houses, designated by sex, opened to men.”
Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour
“Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.”
“Women who know how to ‘Lead with DESIRE’ have the ability to craft the energy that a man should operate in.”
“Women who lead, read”
Source: Everyday Sexism
“Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!”