- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
- Sinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020