100 Quotes About Woman

The best, most beautiful, most valuable things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration...
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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I would always rather be happy than dignified. Unknown
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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. Gillian Anderson
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It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. . Coco Chanel
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I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. Unknown
I know enough to know that no woman should ever...
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. Martha Gellhorn
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In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. Dorothy Parker
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Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant. . Bell Hooks
No woman wants to be in submission to a man...
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No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! T.d. Jakes
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his...
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When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. Steve Maraboli
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was...
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. W. Somerset Maugham
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so...
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Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend. Amy Sedaris
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. Virginia Woolf
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken...
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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Mark Twain
Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy. Alexandre Dumas
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that...
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. W. Somerset Maugham
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Unknown
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with...
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Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. Rainbow Rowell
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. Marian Keyes
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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I don't like it when I outweigh my men. Patricia Briggs
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Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love–it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure. If you are her man, she will walk on water and through a mountain for you, too, no matter how you’ve acted out, no matter what crazy thing you’ve done, no matter the time or demand. If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you– I mean really loves you?–she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to. And no matter what you do, no matter how many times her friends say you’re no good, no matter how many times you slam the door on the relationship, she will give you her very best and then some, and keep right on trying to win over your heart, even when you act like everything she’s done to convince you she’s The One just isn’t good enough. That’s a woman’s love–it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance.. Well, I’m here to tell you that expecting that kind of love– that perfection–from a man is unrealistic. That’s right, I said it–it’s not gonna happen, no way, no how. Because a man’s love isn’t like a woman’s love. . Steve Harvey
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman...
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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. W. Somerset Maugham
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. . Jane Austen
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you,...
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours. Charles Caleb Colton
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is...
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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. Isabel Allende
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her...
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She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire. Charles Bukowski
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You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself. . Toni Morrison
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women....
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Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. Tiffany Madison
If you have the woman you love, what more do...
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If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
 Unknown
Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He...
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Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that! Staness Jonekos
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked...
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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
 Unknown
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags. . Tana French
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep...
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There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall. Patrick Rothfuss
All the problem of women, starts with men. All the...
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All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women. Santosh Kalwar
I make love with a focus and intensity that most...
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I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep. Unknown
One's life has value so long as one attributes value...
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion Simone De Beauvoir
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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle. Bell Hooks
A man is lucky if he is the first love...
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. Charles Dickens
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Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Unknown
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy...
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three. Robert Jordan
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) Jane Austen
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There is an emotional promiscuity we’ve noticed among many good young men and women. The young man understands something of the journey of the heart. He wants to talk, to “share the journey.” The woman is grateful to be pursued, she opens up. They share the intimacies of their lives - their wounds, their walks with God. But he never commits. He enjoys her.. then leaves. And she wonders, What did I do wrong? She failed to see his passivity. He really did not ever commit or offer assurances that he would. Like Willoughby to Marianne in Sense and Sensibility.Be careful you do not offer too much of yourself to a man until you have good, solid evidence that he is a strong man willing to commit. Look at his track record with other women. Is there anything to be concerned about there? If so, bring it up. Also, does he have any close male friends - and what are they like as men? Can he hold down a job? Is he walking with God in a real and intimate way? Is he facing the wounds of his own life, and is he also demonstrating a desire to repent of Adam’s passivity and/or violence? Is he headed somewhere with his life? A lot of questions, but your heart is a treasure, and we want you to offer it only to a man who is worthy and ready to handle it well. . Stasi Eldredge
And we all know love is a glass which makes...
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And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. Alberto Moravia
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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to. Jodi Picoult
A man always finds it hard to realize that he...
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. Arthur Conan Doyle
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never...
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After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. Orhan Pamuk
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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and preactice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving. . Bell Hooks
What a man wants is a mate and what a...
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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security, ’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. Sylvia Plath
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and...
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There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. Jeffrey Mcdaniel
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed...
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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Washington Irving
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she...
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When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her. W. Somerset Maugham
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We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. D.h. Lawrence
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There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is...
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When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. Diane Von Furstenberg
I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up...
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I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman! C. Joybell C.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked...
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Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. Shannon L. Alder
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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten. Anna Wintour
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared...
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No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today. Sandy Brewer
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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth — It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race. There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne.. Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be. . Mabel Hale
One can be very much in love with a woman...
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. W. Somerset Maugham
I am my own experiment. I am my own work...
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Madonna
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Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. Margaret Mitchell
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I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk. Criss Jami
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
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Well-behaved women seldom make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best...
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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
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Better to be strong than pretty and useless. Lilith Saintcrow
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. Eleanor Roosevelt
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]. Mahatma Gandhi
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
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What would you do if you weren't afraid? Sheryl Sandberg
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to...
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Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. Kathryn Stockett
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Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg
One life is all we have and we live it...
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Jeanne DArc
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when...
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves Margaret Mead
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's...
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A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter. Julie Garwood
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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. Virginia Woolf
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and...
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg
No one invites you to the top - you have...
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No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling. Staness Jonekos
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I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help. Philippa Gregory
Women and cats will do as they please, and men...
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert A. Heinlein
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. Mark Twain
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I...
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I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. Madonna
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work...
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. Neil Gaiman
I like men who have a future and women who...
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past. Oscar Wilde
She's the sort of woman who lives for others -...
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. C.s. Lewis
A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter...
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A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh. Conan OBrien
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can...
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You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory! Georgette Heyer
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Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding, " answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done, " I told him. Patricia Briggs
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A well-read woman is a dangerous creature. Lisa Kleypas
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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes but when He created you lying in bed He came all over His Blessed Universe. Charles Bukowski
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them. Molly Ivins
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Is it time for your period, or something?" He turned around, all controlled aggression, and damned if he didn't push the button again. "What is it about having a period that makes women so bitchy?"" By the time the sentence ended the sweetness was long gone, my jaw was clenched, and I think my eyes were bugging out. Wyatt took a step back, belatedly looking alarmed. Linda Howard
The only way a woman can ever reform a man...
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. Oscar Wilde
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Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that." Hey there, bitches! " I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today? Molly Harper
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And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil. Kristin Hannah
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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. Jim Butcher
When something needs to be said, you look for a...
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When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman. P.B. Kerr
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) Elizabeth Peters
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how...
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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. Helen Rowland