Woman Quotes

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

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

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

But perhaps this is the greatest charm of life: it puts a gold-embroidered veil of lovely potentialities over itself, promising, resisting, modest, mocking, sympathetic, seductive. Yes, life is a woman!

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

The sexes deceive themselves over one another: this happens because fundamentally they honour and love only themselves... Hence man wants woman to be peaceful-but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness.

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent - that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices - and to make sure that somebody notices.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.