W Quotes
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“Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.”
“women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.”
Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.”
Source: Cousin Bette
“Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.”
“Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.”
“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.”
Source: Dior
“Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.”
“Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.”
“Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!”
Source: Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
“Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.”
“Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”
“Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.”
Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary
“Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.”
“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
“Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?”
“Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.”
Source: Every Last Drop: A Novel
“Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.”
Source: Married By Morning: Number 4 in series
“Women... can't live with 'em...... can't shoot 'em”
“Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.”
“Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.”
“Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.”
“Women; can't live with em, can't kill em”
“Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.”
“Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.”
“Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!”
“Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead.”
“Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home”
“Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.”
“Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.”
“Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.”
Source: The Help
“Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind”
“Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.”
“Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.”
“Womöglich, weil es in der Gesellschaft selbst heute noch als Schwäche angesehen wird, anders zu sein. Ich verspürte damals eine schreckliche Last auf mir, als ich das Studium abbrach, um das zu finden, worauf ich mittlerweile gestoßen war. Es war keine Last, keine Bürde, es war das Einzige, was ich tun konnte, auch wenn es die wenigsten verstanden.”
“Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say - that American propserity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt.”
Source: Un conto ancora aperto
“Won't the few days off do us no harm.
What it is to be a man," she said, "and to have days off.”
Source: Small Things Like These
“Won't they find me if I run?'
Caleb didn't hesitate with his response. 'Yeah.'
'Then what's the good in running?'
'You'll feel like you at least tried?”
Source: Illusion
“Won't you be my girlfriend
I'll treat you good
I know you hear your friends when they say you should
'Cause if you were my girlfriend
I'd be your shining star
The one to show you where you are”
“Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?”
“Won't you introduce us to your friend?" Thomasina swept an unsubtly flirtatious glance up Gabriel's armored figure. "What a fine figure you must strike at the Round Table."
"At any table." Tansy giggled.
Penny seethed. "It wouldn't be a masquerade if I gave him away, now would it?"
"I suppose we'll have to tease it out of him," Thomasina said.
Was it Penny's imagination, or did her gaze linger on his cod-piece?
Get your eyes off him, you vulture.
She chastened herself for entertaining a thought so mean. It was unkind to vultures.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Won't you need my help with the cache?' Fitz asked her.
It felt very good to tell him, 'I don't see why.'
Ro snickered.”
Source: Stellarlune
“Won’t you say something? I am waiting!
I am a coward, I said nothing;
I have lost your sympathy.
I am brave, I said nothing;
I bore the burden of the untold love within me.
I fought furiously to hide that enormous love inside a shell.
I haven’t lost you as a friend and my love…
My love is kept whole with no abrasion or disappointment.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“Won't your friends tell you this is a mistake?' She gestured to the air between them.
'My friends have nothing to do with this. With what I want from you.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Won the lottery? Before you let anyone you know you won, ask all your friends to borrow some money and help you move. Unfriend the ones who refuse.”
Source: sciVive
“Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think:
Full length mink, fat X and O links,
Bracelets to match, conversation was all that,
Showed you the safe combinations and all that.
Guess you could say you's the one I trusted...
Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?”
“Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone? I hate this game.”
“Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999