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Raymond Chandler on Women

1888–1959 England

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The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

Playback (1957)

It's so hard for women—even nice women—to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.

The Big Sleep (1939)

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

I like games of chance, including women.

She sighed. "All men are the same."
"So are all women—after the first nine."

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.

The Big Sleep (1939)

Maybe you don't like tall girls with honey-colored hair and skin like the first strawberry peach the grocer sneaks out of the box for himself. If you don't, I'm sorry for you.

Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays.

The Big Sleep (1939)

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

The High Window (1942)

Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.

A cigarette girl came down the gangway. She wore an egret plume in her hair, enough clothes to hide behind a toothpick, one of her long beautiful naked legs was silver, and one was gold. She had the utterly disdainful expression of a dame who makes her dates by long distance.

The High Window (1942)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raymond Chandler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.