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Quotes including the word “women”.

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Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Jane Austen

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

de Simone Beauvoir

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

de Simone Beauvoir

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Brendan Behan

“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Borges

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

Cervantes

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Charles Fourier

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Emma Goldman

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Emma Goldman

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Samuel Johnson

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Maria Kallas

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Maupassant

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

Freddie Mercury

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Fatima Mernissi

If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

Fatima Mernissi

You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Shakespeare

All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Frank Sinatra

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Ramos Sucre

Women are war booty.

Ramos Sucre

Women are divided into beautiful and ugly.

Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.