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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
- Age
Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
I fear for the future. I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Abortion
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I’m the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brownborn 1944
- Clever Jabs
He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
John Buchan1875–1940The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XI
- Comedy
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973“America’s Medieval Women,” Harper’s Magazine (August 1938)
- Freedom
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron1788–1824She Walks in Beauty (1815)In context
- Beauty
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (2 of 2)In context
- Love
- Men
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
- Comedy
- Men
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
- Love
When a woman is ugly they always say she has beautiful hair or eyes.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act III, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Beauty
Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
Cherborn 1946“Cher Genius”, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday (28 November 2010)
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Chesterton on Dickens