Thought Catalog

17 Quotes That Capture The Almighty Power Women Have Over Men

A strong woman can destroy a man in under a minute.
Chrissy Stockton
September 27, 2016
“Have you ever felt the the blue inside her eyes? She'll destroy you.”
— Teenage Wrist, Mirror Talk
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Lorelei
“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger.”
— Unknown
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Power of Woman
“Beware. Out of the ash, I rise with my red hair. And I eat men like air.”
— Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Poems
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“When she sings it's over, I get all numb; such a strange numb. And it brings my knees to the earth.”
— Deftones, Minerva
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“Before you start, you're already beat. She's going to break your heart.”
— The Velvet Undeground, Femme Fatale
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“Her eyes pass over me as lightly as they do over the furniture.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Humbert Humbert As Object
“Sugar on your lips, you're pulling me in like you're gravity.”
— Justin Bieber, The Feeling
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“Beauty killed the beast.”
— Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“The beauty of her face started the greatest war man has ever known.”
— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Tagged: Femme Fatale, War
“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
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“And down to the beach he walked, glistening in her glory, breathtaking, yes.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Love
“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
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“Do you think you'll be the guy, to make the queen of the angels sigh?”
— Jim Morrison, Hello I Love You
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“All the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights.”
— Josh Ritter, Kathleen
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“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
Tagged: Women, Poetry, Femme Fatale
“She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.”
— Anne Sexton, For My Lover, Returning to his Wife
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Women
“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)
Tagged: Femme Fatale, My aesthetic