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Nature of women23 quotes
O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope · 1735A fickle and changeable thing always is woman. — Virgil · 19 BCI know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. — Blanche DuBois · 1951All 23 quotes →Women14 quotes
O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope · 1735A fickle and changeable thing always is woman. — Virgil · 19 BCI know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be. — James Bond · 2012In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman. — Jean Racine · 1691All 14 quotes →Men and women5 quotes
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. — Belinda (Fleabag) · 2019Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940Pursuing women2 quotes
Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Let me tell you a little something I've learned about women. They want you to come get them. They love it. — Garth Algar · 1992Eve1 quote
O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Gender relations1 quote
I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do. — Darryl Jenks · 1988Jewelry1 quote
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish? — Thomas Gray · 1748Lying1 quote
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. — Blanche DuBois · 1951Nature of men1 quote
Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940Oppression of women1 quote
What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. — John Stuart Mill · 1869