Women Quotes - Page 3

• A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

  Carrie Snow

  Inspiring, Glowing, Car

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• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Revenge, Beyond Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.79, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  Lillian Hellman

  Memorable, People, Speak

  "Untamed Tongues : Wild Words from Wild Women". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 132), 1993.

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• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

  Mistinguett

  Love, Dream, Don't Give Up

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• There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Funny, Ugly, Ugly Women

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Dresses, Dishes

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

  Patricia Neal

  Memorable, Dumb, Blonde

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  What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Respect, Humor

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

  Alexander Pope

  Sad, Hate, Forgiving

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.15

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• A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Shadow, Like You

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• When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Children, Home

  "Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: An Urgent Priority" by Helen Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Leader, Sorrow, Happy Day

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• Because of something told under the famished horn
  Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
  To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
  Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Night

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.33, Library of Alexandria

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• Though I have many words,
  What woman's satisfied,
  I am no longer faint
  Because at her side?
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sides, Aging

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

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• Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Poet, Said

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Memorable, Character, Race

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• If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

  Kris Kristofferson

  God, Wedding, Thinking

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

  Mae West

  Funny, Distance, Curves

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• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

  Mae West

  Funny, Memorable, Sarcasm

  She Done Him Wrong (motion picture) (1933)

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  You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Witty, Smart

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Future

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• I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

  Jane Campion

  Writing, Feminist, Half

  "Wanted: female film-makers" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

  Sofia Vergara

  Kindness, The End Of The Day, Appreciated

  "Sofia Vergara talks sex and bikinis in Esquire: Who's the sexiest TV actress?", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2012.

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