John Updike - Women Quotes

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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse- quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.

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Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.

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You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI.

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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

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Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.

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Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you fuck them and a creep if you don't.

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What held him back all day was the feeling that somewhere there was something better for him than listening to babies cry and cheating people in used-car lots and it's this feeling he tries to kill, right there on the bus; he grips the chrome bar and leans far over two women with white pleated blouses and laps of packages and closes his eyes and tries to kill it.

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Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

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There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

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It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

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