Charles Bukowski Woman Quotations

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.