Quotes
Quotes about Women
What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.
She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancientâperhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. -Farrah Fawcett.
On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ! My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses!
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to menâbring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
