Women Quotes - Page 128

I do bookstore signings, and it seems to me that I get a variety of men and women, more women than I'd expect, and grown-ups among my readers.

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.

Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.