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Image of Doris Lessing
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Women
Image of Milan Kundera
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
- Milan Kundera
Collection: Women
Image of Honore de Balzac
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Women
Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Collection: Women
Image of Doris Lessing
All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Women
Image of Florence King
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
- Florence King
Collection: Women
Image of Jerry Lewis
I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.
- Jerry Lewis
Collection: Women
Image of Vladimir Lenin
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
- Vladimir Lenin
Collection: Women
Image of D. H. Lawrence
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Women
Image of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Collection: Women
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Women
Image of Karl Kraus
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Women
Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Collection: Women
Image of D. H. Lawrence
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Women
Image of Florence King
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.
- Florence King
Collection: Women
Image of Florence King
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.
- Florence King
Collection: Women
Image of Yves Saint Laurent
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
Collection: Women
Image of Doris Lessing
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Women
Image of Ann Landers
I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
- Ann Landers
Collection: Women
Image of Honore de Balzac
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Women
Image of Walter Savage Landor
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
- Walter Savage Landor
Collection: Women
Image of Walter Savage Landor
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
- Walter Savage Landor
Collection: Women
Image of Doris Lessing
Women are slaves to their beauty.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Women
Image of Henry Adams
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
- Henry Adams
Collection: Women
Image of Henry Adams
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.
- Henry Adams
Collection: Women
Image of Dov Davidoff
MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.
- Dov Davidoff
Collection: Women
Image of Florence King
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
- Florence King
Collection: Women
Image of Fran Lebowitz
I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Women
Image of Nicholson Baker
Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.
- Nicholson Baker
Collection: Women
Image of Karl Kraus
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Women
Image of D. H. Lawrence
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Women
Image of Honore de Balzac
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Women
Image of Honore de Balzac
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Women
Image of Honore de Balzac
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Women
Image of Stephen Leacock
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
- Stephen Leacock
Collection: Women
Image of H. L. Mencken
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Judith Martin
[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Women
Image of Phyllis McGinley
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
- Phyllis McGinley
Collection: Women
Image of Norman Mailer
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Women
Image of Robert Wilson Lynd
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
- Robert Wilson Lynd
Collection: Women
Image of Angela Merkel
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
- Angela Merkel
Collection: Women
Image of Angela Merkel
I am not here for women only, but also for women.
- Angela Merkel
Collection: Women
Image of Angela Merkel
I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!
- Angela Merkel
Collection: Women
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Women
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Women
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Women