Quotes about women
women thinking too-much
But all ladies think they weigh too much.
women good-woman married
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise. Norman Mailer
women coffee things-in-life
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... Orson Welles
women inspiration thinking
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes
women sauce made
Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made. Octave Mirbeau
women magic tiaras
Where there is a woman there is magic. Ntozake Shange
women home world
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. Ellen Key
women almighty enigma
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. Ellen Glasgow
women knitting trouble
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
women book writing
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic. Ellen DeGeneres
women heart world
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. Emily Dickinson
women eye heart
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
women stones medusa
If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
women views law
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view. Henrik Ibsen
women fighting ideas
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. Hermione Gingold
women influence temper
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them. Helen Reddy
women numbers too-much
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
women two righteous-living
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. Helen Rowland
women order understanding
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
women order tangled
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
women eye yield
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives. Heinrich Heine
women flower pretty-woman
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
women race world
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. Henry Ward Beecher
women purity goodness
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
women character men
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters. Henry Fielding
women hard-work wrinkles
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. Helena Rubinstein
women sensibility
Sensibility is the power of woman. Johann Kaspar Lavater
women years different
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
women apples golden
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
women good-man association
Association with women is the basis of good manners.
women feminine femininity
The eternal feminine draws us up.
women noble-man gentle
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]
women hair wife
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.