Women

"If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears."

"Give a woman a job and she grows balls."

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

"And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

"Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women."

"Es ist doch den Mädchen wie angeboren, dass sie allem gefallen wollen, was nur Augen hat."

"A true reckoning with structural disparities in the entertainment industry will demand ... acknowledging that women’s voices and women’s stories are not only worth believing, but also worth hearing. At every level."

"I am a woman—therefore I may not Call to him, cry to him, Fly to him, Bid him delay not!"

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."

"The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers."

"I span and Eve span, A thread to bind the heart of man!"

"Woman covers her hair in token of Eve's having brought sin into the world; she tries to hide her shame; and women precede men in a funeral cortege, because it was woman who brought death into the world. ... Adam was the heave offering of the world, and Eve defiled it. As expiation, all women are commanded to separate a heave offering from the dough. And because woman extinguished the light of man's soul, she is bidden to kindle the Sabbath light."

"The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden: and our Understandings are wedded to an Eve, as fatal as the Mother of our miseries."

"Eine Mutter, die ihren Kindern nicht alles: Freund, Lehrer, Vertraute, Quell der Freude und des gefestigten Stolzes, Ansporn, Dämpfer, Ankläger, Versöhner, Richter und Vergeber ist, die Mutter hat offenbar ihren Beruf verfehlt."

"Denn geht es zu des Bösen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus."

"'Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses."

"Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt."

"Nur der verdient die Gunst der Frauen, Der kräftigst sie zu schützen weiss."

"Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan."

"Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit geführt."

"Der Umgang mit Frauen ist das Element guter Sitten."

"Stupidity is a great asset in a pretty wife. At any rate I have known many husbands who go into raptures about the stupidity of their wives and see in them all the attributes of childlike innocence. Beauty performs veritable miracles. In a beautiful woman all mental defects, instead of provoking revulsion, somehow become extraordinarily alluring; in such creatures vice itself strikes us as comely and harmless; but if she lacks beauty a woman must be fully twenty times as clever as a man in order to command at least respect, if not love."

"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom—is to die."

"All women are, in some degree, poets in imagination, angels in hearts, and diplomatists in mind."

"Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell."

"As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various. So be mine, as I yours for ever."

"What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?"

"The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity."

"Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."

"A faire woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatorye to the purse, and a hell to the soule."

"You know what women are like? They’re like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can’t get any, then when you don’t need them anymore they’re fucking everywhere and you don’t know what to do with them."

"Women are not men’s belongings."

"Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female."

"Las mujeres menosprecian lo que les dan, y mueren por lo que les niegan."

"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

"The basic Buddhist stand on the question of is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman."

"She who must be obeyed."

"Woman's empire, holier, more refined, Moulds, moves and sways the fall'n but God-breathed mind, Lifting the earth-crushed heart to hope and heaven."

"A woman that is all smiles and graces is a vixen at heart; snakes fascinate."

"Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark, open the door and it's off for ever. The bird that roams through the sky and the grove unrestrained, knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself, but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture."

"Every Woman is in the wrong until she cries—and then she is in the right instantly."

"The love of ornament creeps slowly, but surely, into the female heart; the girl who twines the lily in her tresses, and looks at herself in the clear stream, will soon wish that the lily was fadeless, and the stream a mirror."

"The situation of females without fortune in this country is indeed deeply affecting. Excluded from all the active employments, in which they might engage with the utmost propriety, by men, who to the injury of one sex, add the disgrace of making the other effeminate and ridiculous, an indegent female, the object probably of love and tenderness in her youth, at a more advanced age, a withered flower! has nothing to do but to retire and die."

"I'm a girl, and by me that’s only great! I am proud that my silhouette is curvy, That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy. * * * * * I'm strictly a female female And my future I hope will be In the home of a brave and free male Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me."

"Men have thought me beautiful and I have played with them. Women are like that. Men have loved me, and doing what I liked with them, I have found men contemptible. And then comes this little fat detective whose name I don't know, and he acts as if i were a hag—an old squaw. Can I help then being piqued into some sort of feeling for him? Women are like that."

"You're a damned good man, sister."

"She was a big-boned, full-fleshed, red-haired woman of perhaps twenty-eight, handsome in a rather brutal, sloppy way."