About Women Quotes

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

Women's weapons, water-drops.

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

Two women placed together makes cold weather.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.