International Women's Day

Today is the International Women's Day. So I've been thinking what I should write to commemorate the moment. Since all I wanted is to celebrate womanhood without offending manhood (which is very an unlikely thing to do), I figured that I should simply put together great quotes about & by women, as well as movie quotes and quotes from Carrie (Sex & the City) and Ally (Ally McBeal), the two female characters I adore. Read on & celebrate today, and everyday for that matter. Considering that we were once only a rib of a man, I'd say that we've come quite far, haven't we?

~Khunnai


Quotes

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash

Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

I married beneath me - all women do. ~Nancy Astor, 19

God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken

History is herstory too. ~Author Unknown

Being a lady is an attitude. ~Chuck Woolery, Love Connection

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ~Elaine Boosler

Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved. ~ Unknown

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. ~ Unknown

From movies

"When a woman makes a choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife, and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave, they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked you in so long. Not even yourself." ~The Bridges of Madison County (1995) - Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep)

"I love Eggs Benedict, I hate every other kind. I hate big weddings with everybody staring. I'd like to get married on a weekday while everybody's at work. And when I ride off into the sunset, I want my own horse." ~Runaway Bride - Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts)

“I love him and I don’t care what you think. I love him for the man he wants to be and I love him for the man he almost is.” ~Jerry Maguire - Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger)

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody." ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"Looks don't concern me, maestro. Only talent interests a woman of taste." Amadeus (1984) - Katerina Cavalieri (Christine Ebersole)


From Carrie & Ally

“I feel sorry for Big, I really do. Because if you think about it, I was the best thing that ever happened to him. Actually, no. I pity him because I get to walk away and be me, and he has to walk away and stay him, you know? And who wants to be him when you could be me? I mean, I'm smart, I'm funny... I was this, this thing, you know I was it. I was this magic moment. I was the abracadabra. I was totally the "poof" in the relationship. I mean, I've got more "poof" in one finger than he could ever have. I mean, geez, sometimes I "poof" just hailing a cab. So I guess it's better to know now. So I can go "poof" someone else. Someone who deserves me, and not some screwed-up, insecure guy who can't deal with a woman who's got her act together. Now, I'm gonna end up deliriously happy and Big is gonna die old and alone, and I pity him. Really, I pity him. [Carrie]”

“My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single. [Carrie]”

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them. [Carrie]”

“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous. [Carrie]”

“It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special shoes! [Carrie]”

I've been dumped before, Renee. This isn't pain I'm feeling, it's nostalgia. [Ally]

Even if I did get past all my problems, I'm just gonna get out and get new ones. [Ally]

We're women. We have a double standard to live up to. [Ally]

I like being a mess. It's who I am. [Ally]

I don't want what I want, and I want what I don't want, and to complicate it even more, I don't even know what I want or don't want! [Ally]