7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Matilda Joslyn Gage
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A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.
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- Author Jess
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Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.
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- Author Mie Hansson
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Do not judge a woman on her knees; you never know how tall she is when she stands.
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- Author Gustave Flaubert
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Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer—you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language, all the joy that you derive from a naked woman—or a plum pudding.
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- Author Molly Peacock
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But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.
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- Author W. Somerset Maugham
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
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- Author Roman Payne
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Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.
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- Author Nelson DeMille
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Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
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