„What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.“

„What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?“

—  Audre Lorde writer and activist 1934 - 1992

„In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

„A woman whose lover resigns her, and as if for her own sake, though without consulting her, is placed in a most awkward situation. What can she do? Take him at his word? That is easy to say, but hard to do, when all the hopes and affections are garnered in his love.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

„In response to Lady Mary Montague's line 'And we meet, with champagne and a chicken at last' (from Montague's poem 'The Lover: A Ballad'):
"What say you to such a supper with such a woman? … Is not her 'champagne and chicken' worth a forest or two? Is it not poetry?"“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu writer and poet from England 1689 - 1762

„Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.“

—  John Updike, buch Rabbit at Rest

„Clear waters wind
Around our village,
With long summer days
Full of loveliness;
Fluttering in and out
From the house beams
The swallows play;
Waterfowl disport together
As everlasting lovers; …
What more could I wish for?“

—  Du Fu Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712 - 770

„When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes“

—  Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885

„For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.“

—  Myles Munroe Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister 1954 - 2014

„Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

„If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.“

—  Toni Bentley Australian writer 1958

„What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.“

—  Henry James, buch The Portrait of a Lady

„No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.“

—  Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

„A man should gather from the actions of the woman of what disposition she is, and in what way she likes to be enjoyed. A man during her monthly courses, a woman who has been lately confined, and fat woman should not be made to act the part of man.“

—  Vātsyāyana, buch Kama Sutra

„Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.“

—  George Chapman, The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

„First, I say, that woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to rule and command him. As St. Paul does reason in these words: "Man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. And man was not created for the cause of the woman, but the woman for the cause of man; and therefore ought the woman to have a power upon her head" [1 Cor. 11:8-10] (that is, a cover in sign of subjection). Of which words it is plain that the apostle means, that woman in her greatest perfection should have known that man was lord above her; and therefore that she should never have pretended any kind of superiority above him, no more than do the angels above God the Creator, or above Christ their head. [38] So I say, that in her greatest perfection, woman was created to be subject to man.“

—  John Knox Scottish clergyman, writer and historian 1514 - 1572

„Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.“

—  Naomi Wolf, buch The Beauty Myth

„She had a need to feel the thunder,
To chase the lightning from the sky,
To watch a storm with all its wonder
Written in her lover's eyes.
She had to ride the heat of passion
Like a comet burning bright,
Rushing headlong in the wind
Now where only dreams have been,
Burning both ends of the night.“

—  Garth Brooks American country music artist 1962

„Every woman should have a purse of her own.“

—  Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906

„I am amused at my relations with her: left so ardent in January – and now what? Also I like her presence and her beauty. Am I in love with her? But what is love? Her being 'in love' with me, excites and flatters; and interests. What is this 'love?“

—  Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941