Quotes about women
women rain wife
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain. Andre Maurois
women infidelity born
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. Andre Maurois
women tests acid
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test. Andre Maurois
women
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her. Andre Maurois
women wine pretty-woman
To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it. Andre Maurois
women roots brain
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots. Ambrose Bierce
women missing titles
Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Ambrose Bierce
women guy
What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them? Alison Brie
women equality rights
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. Alice Paul
women nwo order
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. Alice Paul
women famous-inspirational flower
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. Alice Walker
women memorable doctors
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
women believe giving
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
women home artist
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
women order essence
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
women islands sea
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
women affection misers
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. Alphonse de Lamartine
women compassion two
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves. Alphonse de Lamartine
women burning spirit
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things. Aeschylus
women riddle please
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. Alexander Pope
women contradiction stills
Woman's at best a contradiction still. Alexander Pope
women character
Most women have no characters at all. Alexander Pope
women half charm
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. Alexander Pope
women looks paradise
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God. Alexander Pope
women race heaven
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. Alexander Pope
women play cards
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones. Alexander Pope
women needs world
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. Dorothy Thompson
women laughing tears
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. Dorothy Dix
women age poverty
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. Dorothy Dix
women tears occupation
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. Dorothy Dix
women history god-love
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least. Dorothy Day
women reading home
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. Colleen McCullough
women thinking lines
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it. Claudia Kennedy