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.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Woman, Friendship
I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter – Woman, adultery
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot – Function of Woman
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot – Motive, Woman
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
George Eliot – Age, Woman
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot – Woman
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Voltaire – Woman
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard – Woman
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
G.K. Chesterton – Woman, Intelligence
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde – Triumph, Woman
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde – Man, Woman, Love
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde – Friendship, Man, Woman
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 – Woman
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
La Rochefoucauld – Woman, Flirting
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
