7,390 Quotes About Women

..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Over your breasts of motionless current,over your legs of firmness and water,over the permanence and the prideof your naked hairI want to be, my love, now that the tears arethrowninto the raucous baskets where they accumulate,I want to be, my love, alone with a syllableof mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!

You can't make me do anything. I'm an adult. And I'm much stronger than you.""Upper body strength isn't everything; I have wiles.""Not really.""Yes, I do. I'm a woman. Women have wiles.""Some women. It's not like every woman is born wily.""If I don't have wiles, she said, "how come I can get you to do most anything I want?""You don't get me to do anything. I just do things. Because I love you.""Oh.""Christ, Georgie, don't sound so disappointed.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

A woman's apathy is far more devastating than her wrath.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better