About Women Quotes

My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
- Roy Blount Jr

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F Kennedy

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.
- Jim Butcher

You must be Warden Ramirez."
This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and
"A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?
- Jim Butcher

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
- Geezer Butler

Shut up...let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you're just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you're real. I don't have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don't even think about women anymore. I think about you.
- Louis C K

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
- Adam Selzer

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.
- John Corwin

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
- Virginia Woolf

When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow, some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell and one would have done.
- Virginia Woolf

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
- Evan Davis

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
- Bernadette Devlin

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
- Olympia Dukakis

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
- Henry Miller

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
- Henry Miller

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
- Andrea Dworkin

Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"

"'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'" I stop finish my J&B in one swallow.
"What does the other part of him think?" Hamlin asks tentatively.
"What her head would look like on a stick
- Bret Easton Ellis

I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
'What does that mean?'
'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.
- Robin Epstein

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.
- William Faulkner

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
- Bryan Ferry

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
- Tina Fey

Do you really believe... that everything historians tell us about men or about women is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
- Moderata Fonte

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
- George R R Martin

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
- Andrew Greeley

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
- Cathy Guisewite

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.
- Abdulrazak Gurnah

Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?
- Joy Hakim

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
- Katherine Heigl

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
- Kristin Hersh

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.
- Bell Hooks

It's like Mark Twain once said to his wife, Olivia: "How many times do I have to say itover the top!" He wasn't talking about women being overly dramatic. He was in fact referring to the proper placement of toilet paper. And I agree to a certain extent. Women can be very dramatic at times. * Quote and anecdote taken from Dora J. Arod's biography titled: "Mark Twain's Mustachethe World's Greatest Facial Hair. Or Certainly Top Three, and No Lower Than Number Four."
- Jarod Kintz

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
- Kesha

I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to be alone.
- Walter Kirn

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
- Hedy Lamarr

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
- Tanith Lee

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
- Mario Lopez

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
- Mario Lopez

What do you know about women?
They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.
- Katie Macalister

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- H L Mencken

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
- George Michael

I am an idiot for wasting any time thinking about a girl named Garrett who I barely know. Because there is one solid truth about women, and that is this: they never stay.
- Ted Michael

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.
- Heather Mills

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.
- Margaret Mitchell

For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.
- Camille Paglia

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
- Robert B Parker

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around..
- Brigid Pasulka

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
- Adelaide Anne Procter

You mustn't hit her over the head with it. Women like to be romanced like the heroines in the sensation novels." "What the devil do you know about sensation novels?" "A man can learn a great deal about women from novels," Matt said. "You should try it sometime.
- Amanda Quick

Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own?
- Anna Quindlen

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.
- Angela Ruggiero

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.
- Joanna Russ

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
- Meg Ryan

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
- Lisa See

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
- Peter Ustinov

What is it about women and luggage? You don't have to bring everything you own, and it shouldn't take this long to throw some clothes into a bag. In fact, if it will save you any time, just leave the underwear out all together.
- Rachel Vincent

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
- Alice Walker

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
- Rob Walton

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
- Fred Ward

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
- Otto Weininger

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
- Joss Whedon

Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed
- Tad Williams

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
- Dick Wolf

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?
- Naomi Wolf

When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: 'We're afraid they'll kill us.' When men were asked the same question about women, they said: 'we're afraid they'll laugh at us.
- Naomi Wolf

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.
- Gabrielle Zevin