WOMEN QUOTES IX
quotations about women
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
MUHAMMAD ALI
interview, Playboy, November 1975
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
YASMINA REZA
The God of Carnage
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
MARK TWAIN
letter to Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett, February 8, 1862
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
ISADORA DUNCAN
My Life
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
TERESA MEDEIROS
The Vampire Who Loved Me
The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
All women are beautiful when they are young, and their eyes are full and clear and their voices are soft and their bosoms are round and smooth.
LOUIS BECKE
"Solepa", By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
Before marriage a woman may procure some éclat by pretending to believe in the fiction of her ascendancy; but after marriage, the worshipped beauty becomes a very plain every-day sort of person, and the poetry of the sex's power is at an end for ever!
ROBERT BELL
Marriage: A Comedy in Five Acts
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Accepting the theory that the monkey is man's ancestor, one is inclined to infer that woman, judging by the number and length of her hatpins, is a lineal descendant of the porcupine.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Woman's mind
Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind;
Sudden she rages, like the troubled main,
Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.
JOHN GAY
Dione
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.
LEONID ANDREYEV
The Life of Man
The sweetest music is the sound of the voice of the woman we love.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Women", Les Caractères
I know the woman has no soul, I know
The woman has no possibilities
Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is
The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so.
It is her flesh that I adore; I go
Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss.
I know she cannot love: it is not this
My vanquished heart implores in overthrow.
Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone,
Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent
Music, divinest human harmony;
Her body now a silent instrument,
That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me
The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.
ARTHUR SYMONS
"Idealism"
Woman is the social barometer; she is an admirably contrived instrument for gauging the defects of her generation.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.
SAMUEL SMILES
Character
Though women appear to belong to the same species as man, they are actually quite different creatures, and these incomprehensible, insidious beings have, fantastic as it seems, always looked after me. In my case such an expression as "to be fallen for" or even "to be loved" is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was "looked after."
OSAMU DAZAI
No Longer Human
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.
DANIEL DEFOE
Moll Flanders
A woman calls it giving you a piece of her mind, but our experience has been that she generally winds up by giving you the whole dad-burned thing.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs