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Quotes and phrases about women from famous authors and thinkers:

• To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. // Helen Rowland
• To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. // Rudolph Valentino
• Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. // Elsa Schiaparelli
• Man has will, but woman has her way. // Oliver Wendell Holmes
• There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. // Will Rogers
• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. // Samuel Butler
• Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. // Marcel Achard
• Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. // Roseanne Barr
• That’s the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. // Miguel de Cervantes
• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. // Honré de Balzac
• I married beneath me. All women do. // Lady Nancy Astor
• Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. // Marcel Archard
• When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. // Alain
• If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. // Aristotle
• Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. // Jules Michelet
• Heaven hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. // William Congreve
• A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself. // Loretta Young
• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. // Timothy Leary
• No matter how successful I become, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I’d just lost twenty pounds and got married. // Wendy Wasserstein
• 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?” // Sigmund Freud
• This species (women) is in fine at once the queen of the world and the slave of passion. // Honré de Balzac
• Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. // Marilyn Monroe
• A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. // Rudyard Kipling
• The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool. // Rudyard Kipling
• Men don’t change but when they do they do, they change of woman. // Anonymous
• The woman problem has always been a man problem. // Simone de Beauvoir
• The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. // George Bernard Shaw

Quotes and phrases about women by Felipe Arcano:

• The more I know about women, the more I appreciate my silence.
• We should listen more to women; they, instead, should listen to themselves less.
• Women don’t like men for what they are but for what they think they can make them-out to be.
• Not because all women are incomprehensible do they stop being irresistible.
• Not all women are the same, but they are for sure equally incomprehensible.
• Women never stop believing in love; thing is that even if expecting love they never chase after it…
• What’s up with women?

Know about any quotes or phrases that talk about or define the “woman spirit” and want to share them? Please send your contributions to felipe.arcano@whatsupwithwomen.com

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