Women Quotes - Page 52

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.