Scarlet woman can refer to:
- A prostitute
- The Whore of Babylon, a figure in the Book of Revelation
- Babalon, a figure in Thelema
- A woman who attains unwanted notoriety by engaging in adultery
Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or woman:
“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)