WOMEN QUOTES XXII

quotations about women

There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

JESSICA ALBA

Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008

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For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats--including to mate retention. To maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of same-sex social relationships, we propose that women's mate guarding is functionally flexible and that women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers. Here, we assess one such cue: other women's fertility. Because ovulating (i.e., high-fertility) women are both more attractive to men and also more attracted to (desirable) men, ovulating women may be perceived to pose heightened threats to other women's romantic relationships.

JAIMIA ARONA KREMS & REBECCA NEEL

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 14, 2016


While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

HARRIET LERNER

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

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Women are slaves to their beauty.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta

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It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population. And yet he heard himself saying, "Look, baby doll, I don't want to argue either."

DAVID BALDACCI

The Christmas Train

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No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, April 14, 1941

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Women are books, and men the readers be,
Who sometimes in those books erratas see;
Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line,
Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine;
Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read,
And faithful wives no more than bibles heed.
Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were
An Almanack, to change her every year.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack

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To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Silence of Colonel Bramble

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In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.

P. N. ELROD

The Dark Sleep

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Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

DANIEL DEFOE

The Education of Women

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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

ARISTOPHANES

Women at the Thesmophoria

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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

ARISTOPHANES

Lysistrata

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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To awake a woman's curiosity is to make her pliable.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide,
Of waters soft and sweet:
Alas! I've never reached the other side;
Though oft I've wet my feet!

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

"Epigram", Imogen and Other Poems

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Women have now marvelous means of winning their way in the world, and mind without muscle has far greater force than muscle without mind.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Physics and Politics

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