144 Inspirational Quotes For Women

February 9, 2025
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144 Inspirational Quotes For Women

In a world where strength, resilience, and compassion are more important than ever, inspirational quotes can serve as powerful reminders of the incredible potential women hold. Whether you’re seeking motivation to start a new venture, navigate challenges, or simply embrace each day with positivity, these carefully selected quotes are designed to uplift and inspire. This collection of 144 inspirational quotes celebrates the power, grace, and limitless potential of women, encouraging you to step into your light with confidence and purpose. Let these words accompany you on your journey, becoming a source of wisdom and encouragement whenever you need a gentle push forward.

1. “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.” - Khaled Hosseini

2. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” - Oscar Wilde

3. “My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases.- A Carcass” - Charles Baudelaire

4. “The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.” - John Elderedge

5. “A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.” - Joan Rivers

6. “As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7. “If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.” - Arthur Golden

8. “She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.” - E. Lockhart

9. “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.” - Leo Tolstoy

10. “A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra... ” - Pamela Redmond Satran

11. “I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.” - Michael Cunningham

12. “Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimpse of the First Woman, as she sat singing to her snake in her chamber of sacred mud. Dazzled by her sight, the light of love and lust, he fell. He is still falling. For all eternity her breasts orbit his dreams.” - Rikki Ducornet

13. “Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. ” - Orhan Pamuk

14. “What is a man?What is a woman?Why are men and women attracted to each other?Why do they desire each other?Love...what is it?” - Yuu Watase

15. “That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.” - Clea Koff

16. “A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. ” - Ginnetta Correli

17. “I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.” - Sidney Sheldon

18. “I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?” - Elizabeth Coatsworth

19. “Every woman should have a purse of her own.” - Susan B. Anthony

20. “A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!” - Jean Lorrain

21. “A secret makes a woman woman” - Gosho Aoyama

22. “Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."That’s how some days feel—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.” - Vera Nazarian

23. “I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant” - Diane Von Furstenburg

24. “Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.” - Rudyard Kipling

25. “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” - Karl Lagerfeld

26. “We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.” - Marianne Williamson

27. “Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.” - Marianne Williamson

28. “I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.” - Karl Lagerfeld

29. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

30. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” - Karl Lagerfeld

31. “I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

32. “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

33. “I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?” - T. Davis Bunn

34. “Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense” - Gregory Maguire

35. “But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.” - Norman Maclean

36. “Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

37. “Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.” - Walter Scott

38. “I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.” - George Meredith

39. “People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.” - Julia Roberts on Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman"

40. “If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.” - Virginia Woolf

41. “But this is till the same girl who once lived in the steppes, wild and indomitable. Even when she ceased to play in the falling snow, the snow continued to fall within her soul. She never sough lovers among the wealthy men and the crown princes who prostrated themselves before her; her heart, like her voice, remained faultless. The reputation, temperament and talent of the woman partook of exactly the same crystalline transparency and icy clarity. ("The Glass Of Blood")” - Jean Lorrain

42. “When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs.” - Günter Grass

43. “I WANT her though, to take the same from me.She touches me as if I were herself, her own.She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, thatI am the other,she thinks we are all of one piece.It is painfully untrue.I want her to touch me at last, ah, on the root andquick of my darknessand perish on me, as I have perished on her.Then, we shall be two and distinct, we shall haveeach our separate being.And that will be pure existence, real liberty.Till then, we are confused, a mixture, unresolved,unextricated one from the other.It is in pure, unutterable resolvedness, distinctionof being, that one is free,not in mixing, merging, not in similarity.When she has put her hand on my secret, darkestsources, the darkest outgoings,when it has struck home to her, like a death, "this is _him!_"she has no part in it, no part whatever,it is the terrible _other_,when she knows the fearful _other flesh_, ah, dark-ness unfathomable and fearful, contiguous and concrete,when she is slain against me, and lies in a heaplike one outside the house,when she passes away as I have passed awaybeing pressed up against the _other_,then I shall be glad, I shall not be confused with her,I shall be cleared, distinct, single as if burnished in silver,having no adherence, no adhesion anywhere,one clear, burnished, isolated being, unique,and she also, pure, isolated, complete,two of us, unutterably distinguished, and in unutterable conjunction.Then we shall be free, freer than angels, ah, perfect.VIIIAFTER that, there will only remain that all mendetach themselves and become unique,that we are all detached, moving in freedom morethan the angels,conditioned only by our own pure single being,having no laws but the laws of our own being.Every human being will then be like a flower, untrammelled.Every movement will be direct.Only to be will be such delight, we cover our faceswhen we think of itlest our faces betray us to some untimely fiend.Every man himself, and therefore, a surpassingsingleness of mankind.The blazing tiger will spring upon the deer, un-dimmed,the hen will nestle over her chickens,we shall love, we shall hate,but it will be like music, sheer utterance,issuing straight out of the unknown,the lightning and the rainbow appearing in usunbidden, unchecked,like ambassadors.We shall not look before and after.We shall _be_, _now_.We shall know in full.We, the mystic NOW.(From the poem the Manifesto)” - D.H. Lawrence

44. “Женщина должна быть не суетна, а семьянинка, кротка, но не слабохарактерна, умна без педанства, великодушна без рисовки, не сентиментальна, но способна к привязанности искренней и глубокой...Автор - Лидии Николаевне Ваньковской.- А.Ф. Писемский "Виновата ли она?” - А.Ф. Писемский

45. “She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.” - Peggy Webb

46. “Que escrúpulo pode ter uma mulher em beijocar um terceiro entre os lençóis conjugais, se o mundo chama a isso sentimentalmente um romance, e os poetas o cantam em estrofes de ouro?” - José Maria Eça de Queirós

47. “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.” - Anais Nin

48. “Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe” - Ursula Hegi

49. “Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.” - Priyanka Bhowmick

50. “لا تعتذر لامرأة عن أي خطأ، لأنك ستبقى متهما عندها حتى لو عرفت بعدك ألف رجل” - أنيس منصور

51. “Depend on no one else to give you what you want” - Destiny's Child

52. “Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.” - Jodi Picoult

53. “When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.” - Jim Anderson

54. “احملي هذا الاسم بكبرياء أكبر.. ليس بالضرورة بغرور، ولكن بوعي عميق أنّك أكثر من امرأة. أنتِ وطن بأكمله.. هل تعين هذا؟ ليس من حقِّ الرموز أن تتهشم.. هذا زمن حقير، إذا لم ننحز فيه إلى القيّم سنجد أنفسنا في خانة القاذورات والمزابل. لا تنحازي لشيء سوى المبادئ.. لا تجاملي أحداً سوى ضميرك.. لأنك في النهاية لا تعيشين مع سواه!” - أحلام مستغانمي

55. “As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't -- ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.” - Dannika Dark

56. “A 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

57. “There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.” - Dru Pagliassotti

58. “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” - Virginia Woolf

59. “It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused” - Amit Abraham

60. “It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.” - Ashly Lorenzana

61. “101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.” - Summersdale Publishers

62. “101 Reason why its its great to be a woman : Since the advent of feminism, we can publicly ogle male bodies and not be called sexist. If a man indulges in this behavior over a picture of naked woman, he is a sexist pig, and recompense must be demanded for this slight on womankind.” - Summersdale Publishers

63. “There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.” - Jorge Luis Borges

64. “But Ludmilla is always at least one step ahead of you. “I like to know that book exists that I will still be able to read…” she says, sure that existent objects, concrete albeit unknown, must correspond to the strength of her desire. How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist?” - Italo Calvino

65. “For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.” - Yasmina Khadra

66. “Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favors here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now.” - Thomas Hardy

67. “At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that she was tall and willowy with a terrific profile and luxuriant platinum blond-hair, the sort of girl who might, as far as looks were concerned, have been the star unit of the harem of one of the better-class sultans.” - P.G. Wodehouse

68. “Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.” - Anna Godbersen

69. “But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.” - John Wyndham

70. “Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.” - Gayle G. Roper

71. “I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.” - Tiruvalluvar

72. “Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!” - Jane Austen

73. “When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.” - Jeanette Winterson

74. “I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!” - Thomas Hardy

75. “There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

76. “A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her” - Deanna Kizis

77. “Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)” - George R.R. Martin

78. “Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.” - Mike Gayle

79. “She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.” - Bram Stoker

80. “What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.” - Jessica Valenti

81. “A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.” - Ai Yazawa

82. “Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady” - Marilyn Monroe

83. “When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.” - Stacy Schiff

84. “...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.” - Pearl Cleage

85. “I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.” - Gregor Golob

86. “All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.” - Harriet Jones

87. “I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.” - Glines Abbi

88. “Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.” - Steve Maraboli

89. “For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.” - Zora Neale Hurston

90. “I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.” - Markus Zusak

91. “A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being which man has not been able to understand.” - Dr. Amit Abraham

92. “A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.” - Stephen King

93. “In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.” - Julia Serano

94. “A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy” - John Irving

95. “Der Mann ist das Haupt der Familie – und die Frau ist der Hals, auf dem es sich dreht.” - E. L. Greiff

96. “I am the woman at the water’s edge,offering you oranges for the peeling,knife glistening in the sun.This is the scent and tasteof my skin: citon and sweet.Touch me and your life will unfoldbefore you, easily as this skirtbillows then sinks,lapping against my legs, my toesfiltering through the rivers silt.Following the current out to sea,I am the kind of womanwho will come back to hauntyour dreams, move through yourhumid nights the way honeyswirls through a cup of hot tea” - Shara McCallum

97. “Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.” - Roman Payne

98. “I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.” - Richard P. Feynman

99. “A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!” - Nancy Atherton

100. “Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles solavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate,graces so multitudinous.” - Charlotte Brontë

101. “She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye.” - Feodor Dostoevsky

102. “There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” - William Shakespeare

103. “As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.” - Christine de Pizan

104. “How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?” - Christine de Pizan

105. “What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience.” - India Edghill

106. “Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.” - Reuben " Mulah Truth " Holmes II

107. “В края на краищата всяка жена помни прекрасно мъжете, с които се е забравяла...” - Asya Kuleva

108. “It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42” - Alaa Al Aswany

109. “Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards” - Ayn Rand

110. “Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

111. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” - Maya Angelou

112. “You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.” - Lisa Cach

113. “Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant "existing things" does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like “woman,” “butch,” “lesbian,” or “transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism.” - Gayle Rubin

114. “You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.” - Wally Lamb

115. “اما النقاب فهو مخالفة جنائية. لماذا؟ لان المرأة المنقبة التي لا تظهر ملامح وجهها اشبه بسيارة تسير في الشوارع بدون لوحة ارقام .” - مريد البرغوثي

116. “Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.” - C.T.

117. “Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.” - Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

118. “She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather” - Henrik Ibsen

119. “It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.” - Lili St. Crow

120. “It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.” - Michael Chabon

121. “A woman's beauty should not imitate art.” - Lionel Suggs

122. “she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever” - Sophie Kinsella

123. “I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.” - Misty Edwards

124. “This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

125. “She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.” - Junot Diaz

126. “Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.” - Virginia Woolf

127. “There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.” - Sylvia Day

128. “I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.” - Roman Payne

129. “A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.” - Lisa Kleypas

130. “If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.” - Boris Pasternak

131. “I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.” - Georgia O'Keffe

132. “Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” - Roman Payne

133. “It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.” - Carolyn Parkhurst

134. “They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.” - Kim Gatlin

135. “When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.” - Theodore Dreiser

136. “Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatetheir human and dog natures.” - Jeet Thayil

137. “A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.” - Arthur Golden

138. “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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139. “If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman” - Munia Khan

140. “I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.” - Marjorie Celona

141. “Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.” - Zamyatin E.

142. “The strength of a woman far exceeds the brawn of a man. ~Lisa Antonio” - Lisa Antonio

143. “Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought!” - Argha

144. “মেয়েরা অল্প কারণে কাদতে জানে এবং বিনা কারণে হাসতে পারে, কারণ ব্যতীত কার্য হয় না, জগতের এই কড়া নিয়মটা কেবল পুরুষের পক্ষেই খাটে । ....রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর” - রবীন দ রনাথ ঠাকুর