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Quotes about Women


Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.

Source Unknown

When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. Doc Childre - Women Lead With Their Hearts (a White Paper) The new paradigm is a joint venture between head and heart intelligence, which generates a continuity of intuitive creative intelligence. Intuition cuts time and effort. As you gain intuitive intelligence, you become more energy and time effective. Bruce Cockburn, "A Dream Like Mine" -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Minna Antrim

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Ed Howe

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Dorothy Dix

Men's vows are women's traitors!

William Shakespeare

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

Janet Begbie

All married women are not wives.

Japanese Proverb

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,-- Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dick Van Dyke

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

Joseph Addison

Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure You credit anything the light gives life to Before a man.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

William Bible

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.

Nizar Gabani

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Chauncey Depew

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Bertrand Russell

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary--or a stool To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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