Women Archives - Jewish Quotations

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"Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won’t run." ~~ Phyllis Diller

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"Every widower finds his world darkened." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin

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"The Lord gave more wit to women than to men." ~~ Talmud, Niddah

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"A beautiful wife enlarges a man’s spirit." ~~ [adapted from] Talmud, Berakot 57b

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"I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard." ~~ Phyllis Diller

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"Beauty may wither, but not grace." ~~ Jacob Klatzkin

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"A wife is one’s heart’s delight." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat

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"I never call my wife “wife”: I call her “home”—for it is she who makes my home." ~~ [adapted from] Talmud, Shabbat 118b

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"Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. " ~~ Bella Abzug

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"From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash." ~~ Sophie Tucker

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"Beware of two persons: a serious man behind whose gravity there is no lightness of mind and a woman of light mind with no gravity in it." ~~ Asher Barash

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"A woman suffers more from the jealousy of a friend than from the prick of a thorn." ~~ Talmud, Yevamot