7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Margaret Atwood
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Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.
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- Author Edith Wharton
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We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
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- Author Dipa Sanatani
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Women have the waxing and waning of the moon to guide them. Maiden. Mother. Crone. But men? They have no such dramatic transitions. No monthly bleed governed by the Moon. No menarche. No menopause. No dramatic bodily rites of passage.
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- Author Jean Sasson
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I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.
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- Author Lilliam Rivera
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I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place my head down at night or the color of my furniture. Home is the people I surrounded myself with, the ones I break bread with. The keepers of my secrets and my fears. It is to be loved and to give love without inhibitions.
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- Author Nikki Rowe
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She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.
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- Author Honoré de Balzac
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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- Author Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
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We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.
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- Author Bret Easton Ellis
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"[...]"'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'" I stop finish my J&B in one swallow."What does the other part of him think?" Hamlin asks tentatively."What her head would look like on a stick
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