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17 Quotes That Capture The Almighty Power Women Have Over Men

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17 Quotes That Capture The Almighty Power Women Have Over Men

A strong woman can destroy a man in under a minute.

She is the kind of girl you never wash off. Once you love her you wear her like your own skin.

— Unknown, The Words You never Understood

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Have you ever felt the the blue inside her eyes? She'll destroy you.

— Teenage Wrist, Mirror Talk

Femme Fatale Lorelei

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger.

— Unknown, via 66.media.tumblr.com

Femme Fatale Power of Woman

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Beware. Out of the ash, I rise with my red hair. And I eat men like air.

— Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Poems

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When she sings it's over, I get all numb; such a strange numb. And it brings my knees to the earth.

— Deftones, Minerva

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Before you start, you're already beat. She's going to break your heart.

— The Velvet Undeground, Femme Fatale

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Her eyes pass over me as lightly as they do over the furniture.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Femme Fatale Humbert Humbert As Object

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Sugar on your lips, you're pulling me in like you're gravity.

— Justin Bieber, The Feeling

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Beauty killed the beast.

— Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)

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The beauty of her face started the greatest war man has ever known.

— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Femme Fatale War

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Upon seeing her, it was like I was hit by a heavy object and I trembled violently.

— Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova: The New Life

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And down to the beach he walked, glistening in her glory, breathtaking, yes.

— Homer, The Odyssey

Femme Fatale Love

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Do you think you'll be the guy, to make the queen of the angels sigh?

— Jim Morrison, Hello I Love You

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All the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights.

— Josh Ritter, Kathleen

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She is, in fact, exquisite.
Fireworks in the dull middle of February
and as real as a cast-iron pot.

— Anne Sexton, For My Lover, Returning to his Wife

Women Poetry Femme Fatale

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She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.

— Anne Sexton, For My Lover, Returning to his Wife

Femme Fatale Women

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You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)

Femme Fatale My aesthetic

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