Women

"Most people—even women—get discouraged after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you've got to be careful or you'll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you're tired of disbelieving her."

"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong."

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

"To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine."

"How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?"

"De wimmin, dey does de talkin' en de flyin', en de mens, dey does de walkin en de pryin', en betwixt en betweenst um, dey ain't much dat don't come out."

"Woman is a species of which every woman is a variety."

"All women are rivals."

"A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon."

"It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang."

"More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters."

"I know this woman. We all do—the type anyway. You see them in the huge new Prada store in Milan, queuing outside the clubs in Soho, sipping skinny lattes in the hot cafés on the Avenue Montaigne—young women who mistake People magazine for news and a Japanese symbol on their backs as a sign of rebellion."

"Oh daddy dear, you're still number one But girls, they wanna have fuh-un Oh when the workin' day is done Girls just wanna have fun."

"Women should be obscene but not heard."

"We have a bunch of women there who are really something. ... There's one of them wears her breasts like I would wear the Iron Cross."

"That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved."

"Women have a wonderful sense of right and wrong, but little sense of right and left."

"Women are not much, but they are the best other sex we have."

"I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction."

"And he called this woman , because all they who dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread."

"Μὴ δὲ γυνή σε νόον πυγοστόλος ἐξαπατάτω αἱμύλα κωτίλλουσα, τεὴν διφῶσα καλιήν. ὃς δὲ γυναικὶ πέποιθε, πέποιθ᾽ ὅ γε φηλήτῃσιν."

"It is cruel for a woman with her man gone, An' the younguns allus hungry, an' winter comin' on."

"Lissen to yo' daddy warn you, 'Fore you starts a-travelling, Woman may born you, love you and mourn you, But a woman is a sometime thing, Yes, a woman is a sometime thing."

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

"First, then, a woman will, or won't,—depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice."

"She most attracts who longest can refuse."

"When a woman goes to a good deal of trouble to make herself look nice, it's often because she gets a secret pleasure out of annoying another member of her sex. One thing woman can do that we men can't is to kiss a woman friend and at the same time stick a needle into her. It's quite hopeless to want to reform women in this respect. Better ignore these little failings! If it makes them happy, well and good. It's an infinitely preferable occupation for a woman than dabbling in metaphysics!"

"Thân em vừa trắng lại vừa tròn, Bảy nổi ba chìm với nước non. Rắn nát mặc dầu tay kẻ nặn. Mà em vẫn giữ tấm lòng son."

"A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm."

"Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant."

"Man has his will,—but woman has her way."

"He selom errs, Who thinks the worst he can of womankind."

"She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen."

"O woman, woman, when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend."

"What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose."

"As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes for me as I descended into Hades."

"But, alas! alas! for the woman's fate, Who has from a mob to choose a mate! 'Tis a strange and painful mystery! But the more the eggs the worse the hatch; The more the fish, the worse the catch; The more the sparks the worse the match; Is a fact in woman's history."

"This so eminent industry in making proselytes more of that sex than of the other, groweth: for that they are deemed apter to serve as instruments and helps in the cause. Apter they are through the eagerness of their affections, that maketh them which way soever they take, diligent in drawing their husbands, children, servants, friends and allies the same way; apter through that natural inclination unto pity, which breedeth in them a greater readiness than in men, to be bountiful towards their preachers who suffer want; apter through sundry opportunities which they especially have, to procure encouragements for their brethren; finally, apter through a singular delight which they take in giving very large and particular intelligence, how all near about them stand affected as concerning the same cause."

"Darwin's daughters have no tails, Yet a reminiscent motion Agitates the lovely frails At the seat of amputation."

"In the van of the Romans came Horatius, displaying his triple spoils. As he drew near the Porta Capena he was met by his unwedded sister, who had been promised in marriage to one of the Curiatii. When she recognized on her brother's shoulders the military cloak of her betrothed, which she herself had woven, she loosed her hair and, weeping, called on her dead lovers name. It enraged the fiery youth to hear his sister's lamentations in the hour of his own victory and the nation's great rejoicing. And so, drawing his sword and at the same time angrily upbraiding her, he ran her through the body. "Begone" he cried, "to your betrothed, with your ill-timed love, since you have forgot your brothers, both the dead and the living, and forgot your country! So perish every Roman woman who mourns a foe!""

"Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats."

"A woman without mettle is like a scabbard without a sword."

"A Woman and a Cherry paint themselves for their hurt, viz. the one to be tempted, the other to be eaten."

"Women are the carriers of society’s values ... men are deviant in the sense that many of the qualities admired in them are also one’s that society has to regard with disapproval ... Women’s Lib portrays society and morality as a male invention to coerce and punish women ... [yet] women are a virtuous group seeking to impose their moral standards on men."

"If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite."

"Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking."

"God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud. With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop."

"The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!"

"A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far."

"Brought up in an epoch when ladies apparently rolled along on wheels, Mr. Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves."