WOMEN QUOTES III
quotations about women
I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement -- they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
interview, BBC, December 13, 2005
Somewhere along the lines, women let someone tell us that we can't have it all. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Really? Well then what is the point of serving me the cake if I can't eat it as well?
TAMARA ANGELA GRANT
"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Women men want to sleep with always win when men are making the decisions.
RITA RUDNER
Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel
You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
BERNARD CORNWELL
The Winter King
A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGER
Ways of Seeing
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
JOHN GRAY
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
Women are more than freestanding uteruses.
PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY
New Republic, February 8, 2016
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011
I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?
WILLIAM GAY
Provinces of Night
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.
IRVING BERLIN
"A Pretty Girl is like a Melody"
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
SAMUEL SMILES
Character
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM
A Defence of Cosmetics
Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.
ANONYMOUS