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I don’t merely mention the source of each quotation.
I took the trouble to link each and every quote to its original source.
In other words, all the quotations of woman below, they are definitely correct and authentic.
I Do NOT refer to all those questionable quote websites and those equally untrustworthy quote books.
They either, don’t cite the sources of the quotes, or they are full or errors.
In fact, this is the only quote website where all the quotes are certainly authentic.
By the way, most of the quotes here are linked to two or more sources.
I also include some of the quotes in their original languages; and again linking to their original sources.
Authentic Women Quotes With Citations
So now, let’s go through my selection of authentic women quotes.
“Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.” – Abraham Miller
“Prudery is the respectable woman’s way of obtruding her sexual desires.” – Abraham Miller
“I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.” – Frank Sinatra
“…a woman has to have something on or there’s nothing to take off…” – Charles Bukowski
“The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.” – Gelett Burgess
“…women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde
“…the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women … merely adored.” – Oscar Wilde
“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.” – Oscar Wilde
“It does seem paradoxical. But when a woman has curves we always want her ’round.” – Robert Elliott Gonzales
“A woman is rarely up to date on the subject of her age.” – Robert Elliott Gonzales
“A woman is known by the confidences she keeps.” – Robert Elliott Gonzales
“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Il y a peu de femmes dont le mérite dure plus que la beauté.” (French)
“In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.” – François De La Rochefoucauld
“Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l’amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l’amour.” (French)
“…a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion…” – Tennessee Williams
“…when once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.” – George Washington
“With women the heart argues, not the mind.” – Matthew Arnold
“…there is such a thing as the wrong woman. She makes a man a fraction…. But the right woman! She multiplies a man.” – Horace Holley
“…I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.” – George Eliot
“…the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.” – George Eliot
“…women are like tricks by sleight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand. – William Congreve
“…perhaps nature had endowed women with a need for regular injections of male hormones via semen…” – Fay Weldon
“Of all the paths lead to a woman’s love. Pity’s the straightest. – John Fletcher
“…most women are not so young as they are painted…” – Max Beerbohm
“Women have one advantage over men. Throughout history they have been forced to make adjustments.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“That you may gain her, ask: she only wishes to be asked.” – Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Ut potiare, roga: tantum cupit illa rogari.” (Latin)
“…what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
“Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.” – Elissa Melamed
“Woman” is my slave name; feminism will give me freedom to seek some other identity altogether.” – Ann Snitow
“Woman was God’s second mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Das Weib war der zweite Fehlgriff Gottes” (German)
“Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution – it is called pregnancy.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Alles am Weibe ist ein Rätsel, und alles am Weibe hat eine Lösung: sie heißt Schwangerschaft.” (German)
Another English translation:
“Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“In der Rache und in der Liebe ist das Weib barbarischer, als der Mann.” (German)
“…you won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.” – Bernard Cornwell
“Beauty in woman is that potent alchemy which transforms men into asses.” – Abraham Miller
“The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Women’s eyes have pierced more hearts than ever did the bullets of war.” – William Scott Downey
“Men’s eyes are in their heads; women’s, in their hearts. – Ivan Panin
“…a woman’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.” – J.M. Coetzee
“We should choose for a wife only the woman we should choose for a friend, were she a man.” – Joseph Joubert
“Il faut ne choisir pour épouse que la femme qu’on choisirait pour ami, si elle était homme.” (French)
Another English translation:
“One ought not to choose for a wife a woman whom one would not choose for a friend, were she a man.” – Joseph Joubert
“In her first passion, woman loves her lover, In all the others, all she loves is love…” – Lord Byron
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(The quote is also found in: The Works Of Lord Byron, Complete In One Volume, John Murray, Don Juan, Canto The Third, III; p.630)
“…glory itself would be for woman only a splendid mourning-suit for happiness.” – Madame De Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
“…la gloire elle-même ne saurait être pour une femme qu’un deuil éclatant du bonheur.” (French)
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” – Cindy Chupack
“…passing her fortieth year a woman becomes an insoluble riddle; and if any one can see through an old woman, it is another old woman” – Honoré De Balzac
“…passé quarante ans, une femme devient un grimoire indéchiffrable, et si quelqu’un peut deviner une vieille femme, c’est une autre vieille femme.” (French)
“…the heart of a woman is like a lyre which does not reveal its secret, excepting to him who is a skillful player.” – Honoré De Balzac
“…la femme est une lyre qui ne livre ses secrets qu’à celui qui en sait bien jouer.” (French)