Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.).

— Charles de Leusse

The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.).

— Charles de Leusse

For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls” when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.

— Jewelle L. Gómez

Where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — Love's Labor Lost. The eyes appears to be more immediately connected with the soul than any other organ. A woman reflects every emotion, almost every thought from her two wonderful, priceless eyes, and no feature of her face is more a telltale of her nature. 'Show me,' says the old Chinese proverb, 'a man's eyes, and I will tell you what he might have been. Show me his mouth, and I will tell you what he has been.' The same is true of women. Up to thirty or thirty-five a woman may be actress enough to make her eyes tell one tale, while her life would reveal another; but little by little the true state of a woman's soul stands forth in the expression, the frankness, the furtiveness, the candor, or the boldness.

— Harriet Hubbard Ayer

She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

Ô, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent, more perfect than allthat a man can invent.When she came to my bed and begged me with sighsnot to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, I told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes, then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fineI devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

— Roman Payne

A smile is your best beauty asset.

— Miss Vera

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

— Roman Payne

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.).

— Charles de Leusse

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies deep enough. Her fleeting conception of things and beings condemned her fatally to a perversion of her senses, to vagaries of the spirit and left her nothing but the torment of an unachieved longing, the torture of unfulfilled desires.

— Octave Mirbeau