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The best synonym for complex is- WOMAN. That’s because the complexities of a woman can never be fully explained. Only experienced.
I remember a quote shared by a friend many years ago about how women are being measured. A quick search on the internet revealed that it was for a Nike Women campaign. The full quote is as follows:
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn’t curve. By where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers. By all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics, and statistics lie.
This quote reminded me of how peculiar women can be. And how this characteristic makes women what they are. Fun. Fabulous. Smart.
Apart from that, no one can really explain how it is to be a woman. This is why I came up with this article, to see how a woman is viewed and described.
So, here are 37 quotes that provide insight into the quirks of being a woman.
Quotes about women’s complexities
Here’s how men and women, themselves describe what it means to be, well, a WOMAN.
“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.” – Farrah Fawcett
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton
“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought: I’m enough.” – Anna Quindlen
“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?” – Tina Fey
“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.” – Susan B. Anthony
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” – Lilith Saintcrow
“A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.” – Gina Carey
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
“I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” – Madonna
“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” – Bette Davis
“I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.” – Diane von Furstenberg
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.” – Joseph Conrad
“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story—I will.” – Amy Schumer
“Maybe it just boils down to: I’m a woman who’s really into her career, so I’m obsessed with the craft of my work. … There’s a romance in that for me.” – Mitski
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.” – Unknown
“The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” – Mark Twain
“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.” – Audrey Hepburn
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” – Madonna
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf
“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.” – Mindy Kaling
“Despite my thirty years of research into the woman soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?” – Sigmund Freud
“I do not believe in using women in combat because females are too fierce.” – Margaret Mead
“A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man when he is in the right, will keep on talking.” – Malcolm de Chazal
“Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West
“There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.” – Will Rogers
“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.” – Daphne du Maurier
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.” – H.L. Mencken
“When my wife says she’ll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go.” – Mike Vanatta
“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.” – Marlene Dietrich
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” – Gloria Steinem
“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious—or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.” – Naomi Wolf
“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and herself only.” – Maya Angelou
Closing
So how did you find these insightful and amusing quotes about women? To be sure, we can never fully explain the peculiarities of being a woman. We can only love and understand ourselves for who we are. For what it’s worth, being a woman is a lot of FUN.
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