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Quotes about Women


Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Walt Whitman

. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

John Quincy Adams

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William E. Borah

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

William Shakespeare

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Robert Browning

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Martin Luther

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. -Justice Learned Hand.

Justice Learned Hand

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

Clarice Stasz Stoll

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Karl Marx

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Margaret Mead

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

Charleszetta Waddles

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Lynn Caine

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

Father Alfred Bible

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then marry him.

Satya Sai Cher

A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Bruce J Freidmen

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure—the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Farrah Fawcett

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