Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. – Mary Roberts Rinehart

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. – Rita Mae Brown

But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. – W. E. B. Du Bois