7,390 Quotes About Women

  • Author N.H. Kleinbaum
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    So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.

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  • Author Paulo Coelho
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    I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

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  • Author Patrick Rothfuss
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    You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

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  • Author J.M. Barrie
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    Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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  • Author Nicholas Sparks
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    A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

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