Women
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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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- 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.
- Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776. Published in Adams Family Correspondence.
- Most women choose to be weak, because it makes their lives easier.
- Women are the only investment upon which you pay your taxes before your receive your income.
- Jacob M. Appel, Arborophilia, 2005.
- 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
- Louise Burfitt-Dons, from a speech about the Hot Women Campaign. London, April 2008.
- "Las mujeres son el impuesto que pagamos por el placer."
- Women are the tax we pay on pleasure.
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, Una muñeca rusa, 1991.
- 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.
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1902.
- And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: who so pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Ecclesiastes, VII:26-29, The Bible
- 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, letter to Marie Bonaparte, quoted in Sigmund Freud, Life and Work, Ernest Jones, 1955.
- 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.
- Let man fear woman when she hateth: for man in his innermost soul is merely evil; woman, however, is mean.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1853-1855.
- 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!
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
- Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.
- Ulysses McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)
- I am woman, hear me roar.
- Helen Reddy, I Am Woman (song), 1972.
- She who must be obeyed.
- H. Rider Haggard, She (1887)
- 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."
- Judy Roitman, mathematician, quoted by Claudia Henrion in Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, 1997.
- 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.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Über die Weiber (Of Women), 1851 essay.
- Women, for the sake of their children and parents, submit to slaveries and prostitutions that no unattached woman would endure.
- Bernard Shaw, preface to Androcles and the Lion (1916)
- "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, Season 4, 9F06: New Kid On The Block
- I read somewhere that their periods attract bears. The bears can smell the menstruation.
- Brick Tamland, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004.
- 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.
