„Kentucky woman
She shines with her own kind of light.
She'd look at you once
And a day that's all wrong looks all right.
And I love her, God knows, I love her.Kentucky woman,
If she get to know you,
She goin' to own you.
Kentucky woman.“

„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

„She's a woman in love
And he's gonna break her heart to pieces.
She don't want to see.
She's a woman in love, but it's not me.“

—  Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017

A Woman in Love (It's Not Me), written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Hard Promises (1981)

„"But tell me how it is that she could be so beautiful without any heart at all — without any place even for a heart to live in." "I cannot quite tell," she said; "but I am sure she would not look so beautiful if she did not take means to make herself look more beautiful than she is. And then, you know, you began by being in love with her before you saw her beauty … But the chief thing that makes her beautiful is this: that, although she loves no man, she loves the love of any man; and when she finds one in her power, her desire to bewitch him and gain his love (not for the sake of his love either, but that she may be conscious anew of her own beauty, through the admiration he manifests), makes her very lovely—with a self-destructive beauty…"“

—  George MacDonald, buch Phantastes

On the Alder Tree
Phantastes (1858)

„I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. “

—  Джон Эрнст Стейнбек 1902 - 1968

„I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.“

—  John Steinbeck, buch East of Eden

Variante: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Quelle: East of Eden

„A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.“

—  Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

Quelle: Life Is Worth Living

„You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

„Marie falls back upon her idea, obdurately, and says, "A woman only lives by love and for love. When she's no longer good for that she's no longer anything."
She repeats, "You see — I'm nothing any more."
Ah, she is at the bottom of her abyss! She is at the extremity of a woman's mourning! She is not thinking only of me. Her thought is higher and vaster. She is thinking of all the woman she is, of all that love is, of all possible things when she says, "I'm no longer anything." And I — I am only he who is present with her just now, and no help whatever is left her to look for from any one.
I should like to pacify and console this woman who is gentleness and simplicity and who is sinking there while she lightly touches me with her presence — but exactly because she is there I cannot lie to her, I can do nothing against her grief, her perfect, infallible grief.
"Ah!" she cries, "if we came to life again!"“

—  Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935

Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts

„It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be“

—  Edith Wharton, buch The House of Mirth

Quelle: The House of Mirth

„I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

„The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, — do her own individual work — stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strengh… She will proclaim the "glad tidings of good news" to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop every power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life.“

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

Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144

„Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?“

—  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, buch Venus im Pelz

Quelle: Venus in Furs

„I know you love her… you're gay and she's Celine Dion!“

—  Kathy Griffin American actress and comedian 1960

Strong Black Woman (2006)

„When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.“

—  Louis L'Amour Novelist, short story writer 1908 - 1988

„Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.“

—  Thomas Hardy, buch Jude the Obscure

Pt. IV, ch. V
Jude the Obscure (1895)

„This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation.“

—  E.M. Forster, buch Where Angels Fear to Tread

Quelle: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 10
Kontext: This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation. This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful. To such a height was he lifted, that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened.
"Thank you," was all that he permitted himself. "Thank you for everything."

„The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.“

—  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

„A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.“

—  André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage

„My mother was a strong, domineering woman, probably scared to death of the position she found herself in She was psychotic, attempting suicide several times and scaring the devil out of me as a kid with threats... One day [she] would say that she loved me, and the next day she'd scream that she was sorry I'd ever been born -- that I'd ruined her life... [She] would often stuff her mouth with cotton and hold her breath, pretending that she was dead, to scare me when I was small. Sometimes she'd tell me she really could walk and during the night she was going to get up, turn on the gas jets, and kill us both. I would be absolutely terrified... And yet... she encouraged my writing and would tell me that I was a good kid and she didn't know why she acted that way... but then she'd do it again.“

—  Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984

Elmira Star Gazette (1973), Interview with Jane Roberts, quoted on p. 14 of Susan M. Watkins' Speaking of Jane Roberts (2001)