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Quotes including the word “woman”.

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Akhmatova

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Jane Austen

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

de Simone Beauvoir

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

de Simone Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

de Simone Beauvoir

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

de Simone Beauvoir

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female. Whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Brendan Behan

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Boccaccio

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”

Chanel

Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.

Chanel

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Chanel

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness

Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

Salvador Dali

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”

Paul Eluard

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Ian Fleming

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”

Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Nikolai Gogol

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”

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.

Maxim Gorky

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Kawabata

“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”

Kipling

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Lamartine

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Lawrence

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

Lawrence

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Norman Mailer

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Andre Malraux

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Fatima Mernissi

The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

Nazrul

The man plows the fertile land, the woman sows it, greening it.

Nazrul

The man comes with the thirst of the desert, the woman offers a drink of honey.

Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous play thing.

Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Octavio Paz

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Alexander Pope,

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Pythagoras

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Renoir

Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Renoir

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”

Strindberg

Love between a man and a woman is a war.

Talleyrand

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.