women

See:
  • (one's) own man/woman/person
  • a man/woman of the people
  • a man/woman on a mission
  • a man/woman with a mission
  • a woman of few words
  • a woman of her word
  • all able-bodied people
  • all women are like that
  • be (one's) own man/woman/person
  • business woman
  • comfort woman
  • fallen woman
  • God's gift to women
  • kept woman
  • man/woman/gentleman/lady of leisure
  • men (and women) in blue
  • men make houses, women make homes
  • nasty woman
  • old woman
  • point woman
  • Renaissance man
  • repo woman
  • self-made man
  • straight woman
  • the little lady
  • the little woman
  • the thinking man's/women's crumpet
  • wine, women, and song
  • woman of color
  • woman of God
  • woman of ill repute
  • woman of letters
  • woman of many parts
  • woman of means
  • women and children first
  • women in blue
  • women's intuition
  • yes all women
References in classic literature
After all, our principal safeguard is found, not in Legislature, but in the interests of the Women themselves.
Not that it must be for a moment supposed that our Women are destitute of affection.
Flatland
Of such is variety, surprise, so that your man's pursuit will be everlasting, so that his eyes will look to you for newness, and not to other women. It was the freshness and the newness' of your beauty and you, the mystery of you, that won your man.
"Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory.
The Valley of the Moon
Then, if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education?
Then women must be taught music and gymnastic and also the art of war, which they must practise like the men?
Republic
She clutched the matron by the arm, and forcing her into a chair by the bedside, was about to speak, when looking round, she caught sight of the two old women bending forward in the attitude of eager listeners.
'Stone dead!' said one of the old women, hurrying in as soon as the door was opened.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
Yet, when he contracted the disease, of all women, it had been with the wife of Colonel Walthstone, the great Guggenhammer mining expert.
Women were terrible creatures, and the love-germ was especially plentiful in their neighborhood.
Burning Daylight
"Is it true," appealed Minora to the Man of Wrath, busy with his lemons in the background, "that your law classes women with children and idiots?"
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Well, by this time he began to be sensible of his mistake; and having alarmed all the women on that side of the water, he went over to Ratcliff, and got access to some of the ladies there; but though the young women there too were, according to the fate of the day, pretty willing to be asked, yet such was his ill-luck, that his character followed him over the water and his good name was much the same there as it was on our side; so that though he might have had wives enough, yet it did not happen among the women that had good fortunes, which was what he wanted.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Then some words were spoken by the two women. At length the shutter closed.
Three Musketeers
And the conversation at once passed to the new subject of the education of women.
Anna Karenina
"Women who are comme il faut, that's a different matter; but the Kuragins' set of women,
War and Peace