Woman Quotes
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Polythene Pam was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.
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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
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But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!
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...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!
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I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
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The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
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It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
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This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
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Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become Cranky, and start wars.
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Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.
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She was a woman of uncertain age.
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Woman is the light of God.
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Whoever of ye Whigs thinks I am to be Hecktor'd or frighted into a Complyance tho I am a woman, are mightely mistaken in me. I thank God I have a Soul above that, & am too much conserned for my reputation to do any thing to forfeit it.
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Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.
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There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
