Women Quotes

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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

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.

There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Which, taken at the flood, leads—God knows where.

A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

The Gentleman in Blue

Charles Dickens

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Because as a rule women dont really care about facts just so they fit; it's just men that dont give a damn whether they fit or not.

William Faulkner

... women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Rudyard Kipling

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

The Prophet passed by me at a place called Al-Abwa or Waddan, and was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, "They (i. e. women and children) are from them (i. e. pagans)." I also heard the Prophet saying, "The institution of Hima is invalid except for Allah and His Apostle."

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.

Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

Jean de La Bruyère

That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.

Rudyard Kipling

I am those women. I am every one of them. And they are me. That's why we get along so well.

Thy dangerous glances
make women of men;
new-born, we are melting
into nature again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.