WOMEN QUOTES XXIII

quotations about women

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

MARGARET ATWOOD

"Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For"

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While it won't shock anyone to learn that Y chromosomes are overrepresented in news coverage, a new study found that women are more likely to appear in photographs than in the text of news stories. Researchers in the United Kingdom used artificial intelligence software to catalogue an enormous corpus of English-language news on the Internet. They vacuumed up 2.3 million articles published by 950 online news sources, from the BBC to the New York Post, over six months from October 2014 to April 2015. They used AI programs to search for faces in the articles' lead images and categorize them by gender. Names in the text of news sources or subjects were also sorted by gender. "The proportion of females was consistently higher in images than in text, for virtually all topics and news outlets," the researchers wrote in the article published in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the University of Bristol and Cardiff University.

JOHN TOZZI

"Women Are 'Eye Candy,' Not News Sources, Online", Bloomberg Business, February 4, 2016


The successful woman has a secret. She's learned that she owes it to herself, her children, and the world to make the contribution she was born to make. She's learned to ask for advice and help, to insist on getting paid what she's worth, and to set boundaries at work and at home so that her needs get met, not trampled. She puts her dreams at the top of her priorities list, not at the bottom. She feels great about being recognized for her accomplishments, and she's totally OK with the fact that not everyone is going to like her when she stands up to those who would discount her or put her down.

DEBRA CONDREN

Good Housekeeping, August 2010


Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Women


To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Silence of Colonel Bramble

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Whatever may be thought of "woman's sphere," it is certain that its boundaries have been steadily enlarged; that an increased liberty, not only of secular employments and civil rights, but also of social intercourse, has been accorded to her with increasing civilization; and that, so far from losing, either in the delicacy and refinement of her own character, or in the chivalric homage paid to her by man, she has gained in both respects in the same ratio in which she has been freed from the trammels of an unnatural conventionalism, and elevated to a position of real equality with the dominant sex.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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You've heard it before, but are afraid to say it aloud for fear of sounding boastful. Southern women are prettier than others. But wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Is it true? Are we really prettier? I'll let you in on a little secret. We're not. Everyone just has that illusion because the truth is, we only try harder. Our secret weapon for loveliness, passed down by generations of Southern ladies, is our ability to make the best out of what we have, or in other words, "effort."

LESLIE ANNE TARABELLA

"Are Southern women prettier?", AL, April 3, 2017


Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld

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When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.

HONORE DE BALZAC

The Muse of the Department


Man makes one journey all his living days,
Down through the realms of music and of art;
Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise;
Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart
To some sweet woman waiting some place there.
For her he builds his cities and makes war,
Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.

EDWIN CURRAN

"The Eternal Quest"


In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity.

SALLY ROBINSON

Iron Jawed Angels

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Let men be men -- and let women be women -- Women competing with men- does not help us -- We have better things to do -- like being mothers.

PAMELA ANDERSON

blog post, Pamela Anderson Foundation, April 4, 2017


Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

EDWARD ALBEE

Stretching My Mind

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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings


A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman.... They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses


As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Three Guineas


He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists


A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to "Scottie", November 18, 1938

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