WOMEN QUOTES VI
quotations about women
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.
RICHARD NIXON
conversation with John Mitchell, Slate, October 11, 2001
Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.
ROBI LUDWIG
interview, The Romance Files, February 16, 2011
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
MILTON BERLE
attributed, quotefancy
How do those who contend that woman is the intellectual inferior of man account for the fact that she can give a man a piece of her mind 365 days in the year and still have a huge reserve supply?
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy. I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women. But I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech, March 18, 1864
Love deceives the best of womankind.
HOMER
The Odyssey
Woman is prone by nature to jealousy, and brooks not a rival in the nuptial bed.
EURIPIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Difficult folk, these women!
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
The Master and Margarita
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.
GENE WOLFE
The Claw of the Conciliator
Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Knight of Malta
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES
Medea
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER
The Matchmaker
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Table Talk, July 23, 1827
Under his forming hands a creature grew,
Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair
That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now
Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained,
And in her looks; which from that time infus'd
Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
And into all things from her air inspir'd
The spirit of love and amorous delight.
She disappear'd, and left me dark; I wak'd
To find her, or for her ever to deplore
Her loss, and other pleasures abjure:
When out of hope, behold her, not far off,
Such as I saw her in my dream, adorn'd
With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow
To make her amiable: On she came,
Led by her Heavenly Maker, though unseen,
And guided by his voice; nor uninform'd
Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites:
Grace was in her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
HONORE DE BALZAC
The Lily of the Valley
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
introduction, History of Woman Suffrage
Destruction often lurks in women's eyes.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims