quotations about women
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.
DANIEL DEFOE
Moll Flanders
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SUSAN PI
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I ask myself what
is the sound of women? What is the word for
that still thing I have hunted inside them
for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy,
the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still
in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper
down where a woman's heart is holding its breath,
where something very far away in that body
is becoming something we don't have a name for.
JACK GILBERT
"Happening Apart from What's Happening Around It"
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
The Pentagon has allowed women to serve in combat. Yeah, the hope is that we can now finally defeat the Taliban by giving them the silent treatment.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan
What happens is that, as with drugs, he needs a stronger shot each time, and women are just women. The consumption of one woman is the consumption of all. You can't double the dose.
IAN FLEMING
attributed, The Life of Ian Fleming
Further, we acknowledge that, to the credit of our age, we meet, ever since the revival of morality and religion and during our own times, some women, here and there, so moral, so religious, so devoted to their duties, so upright, so precise, so stiff, so virtuous, so--that the devil himself dare not even look at them; they are guarded on all sides by rosaries, hours of prayer and directors. Pshaw!
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
KINGSLEY AMIS
"A Bookshop Idyll", A Case of Samples
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
HAROLD PINTER
Moonlight
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
It does seem paradoxical. But when a woman has curves we always want her 'round.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Feminist news media researchers have long contended that masculine news values shape journalists' quotidian decisions about what is newsworthy. As a result, it is argued, topics and issues traditionally regarded as primarily of interest and relevance to women are routinely marginalised in the news, while men's views and voices are given privileged space. When women do show up in the news, it is often as 'eye candy,' thus reinforcing women's value as sources of visual pleasure rather than residing in the content of their views.
SEN JIA & THOMAS LANSDALL-WELFARE
"Women Are Seen More than Heard in Online Newspapers", Plos One
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
"The People of the Black Circle", Weird Tales, 1934
Content with one woman?... That is impossible. If you could, then any man can, and any man can't.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
As Unto the bow the the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows:
Useless each without the other!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Song of Hiawatha
Wretched
Women!
When you are wholly lovely
Man cannot forget either of his two afflictions,
Soul, or body!
MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT
"Ode in the New Mode"
The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.
JAMES BALDWIN
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Interview Magazine, September 1987
Miracle woman ...
Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh
An easeful meadow for my weariness.
DONALD EVANS
"For the Haunting of Mauna"