WOMEN QUOTES XXVII

quotations about women

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Diana of the Crossways

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Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him ... In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex


Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sex Begins in the Kitchen

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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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When the hour of adversity arrives, when false friends are scattered, when we are moving through the keen atmosphere of selfishness, then it is that the virtuous wife, like an angel of light, shines with peculiar lustre.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Valley of Horses

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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983

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Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

letter to Steve Richmond, November 1971

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