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Women are female humans. The term woman (irregular plural: women) usually is used for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights".

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  • Hence, it will be found that the fundamental fault of the female character is that is has no sense of justice. This is mainly due to the fact, already mentioned, that women are defective in the powers of reasoning and deliberation; but it is also traceable to the position which Nature has assigned to them as the weaker sex. They are dependent, not upon strength, but upon craft; and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their ineradicable tendency to say what is not true. For as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boards with tusks, bulls with horns, and cuttle fish with its clouds of inky fluid, so Nature has equipped woman, for her defense and protection, with the arts of dissimulation.
  • More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women’s lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world’s finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children’s children
  • If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
  • Women are the only investment upon which you pay your taxes before your receive your income.
  • It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
  • To make women learned, and foxes tame, hath the same operation, which teacheth them to steale more cuningly, but the possibility is not equall, for when it doth one good, it doth twenty harme.
    • Attributed to James I of England; reported in Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault, The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury (1856), p. 261.
  • Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
  • Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.
  • Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
  • The great question . . . which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'
    • Sigmund Freud, Quoted in Charles Rolo, Psychiatry in American Life
  • I read somewhere that their periods attract bears. The bears can smell the menstruation.
  • I remember when OB tampons came out and you could hold them in your hand, and I'd walk down the hall holding my little OB tampon and I thought, "If I open my hand and show this to anybody, the whole building is going to explode."
  • Treat every woman like a queen and every queen like a woman."
  • "Son, a woman is a lot like a... [looks around] a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice and, um... [spots his can of Duff] Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! [downs the beer] But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
    • Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
  • Woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.
  • A boy dreams with a sword in his hand. A girl gives him purpose, a reason to draw it from its scabbard.
  • "Las mujeres son el impuesto que pagamos por el placer."
  • Women, for the sake of their children and parents, submit to slaveries and prostitutions that no unattached woman would endure.
  • The same emotions are in man and woman, but in different TEMPO, on that account man and woman never cease to misunderstand each other
  • In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.
  • … woman would like to believe that love can do EVERYTHING -- it is the SUPERSTITION peculiar to her. Alas, he who knows the heart finds how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is -- he finds that it rather DESTROYS than saves!

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  • A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
  • A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young- not her face.
  • A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  • A woman is like an... artichoke. You have to do a bit of work before you get to the heart.
  • A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often.
  • A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
  • Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
  • In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist.
  • Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned"
  • I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted."
  • Women are like teeth.
They are easily replaced.
  • Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.
  • Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
  • It’s not logical to be logical about women—but what can you do except be logical?
  • On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
  • Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
  • You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.
  • It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their mental life.
  • Women would rule the world - if only they'd stop bitchin' about each other!
  • To varying degrees, all chicks are sluts - except for my mum, and I'm not sure about yours.
    • TB - Based on a SB Truism
  • I hate women because they always know where things are.
  • In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.
  • If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
  • Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at, but I wouldn't like to own one.
  • Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
  • I'm sorry Wendy, but I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
  • Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
  • Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them.
  • The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
  • The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
  • The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
  • Whether women are better than men I cannot say- but I can say they are certainly no worse.
  • How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
  • Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
  • There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
  • No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
  • Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
  • When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
  • The stages of a woman in her relationships with men: Good--->Decent--->Slut--->Bitch. Parents (initially) and men will most of the time be the ones that accelerate, decelerate or stop this trajectory. And the worst problem is that it is nearly impossible to go back to an earlier state.
  • Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
  • The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons?
  • A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
  • Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
  • A woman always likes to be on top, but it never lasts.
  • A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.
  • A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at fourty, and a witch at forescore.
    • English proverb
  • A woman's strength is in her tongue.
    • English proverb
  • When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up to speak, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.
    • Pauline Frederick

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