Quotes about women
women tears addresses
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
women reading book
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
women drama blood
the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore. Estelle Ramey
women thinking matter
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had. Ernest Hemingway
women home ironing-board
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are. Eudora Welty
women seems
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden. Erma Bombeck
women talking columns
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
women play roles
It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role. Florida Scott-Maxwell
women white hot-flashes
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy. Florence King
women mean space
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
women nursing opportunity
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
women suffering done
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. Henry Miller
women knowing evil
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man. Henri Frederic Amiel
women memorable age
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller
women sky flying
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
women responsibility justice
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
women monsters literature
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. George Eliot
women stupid ems
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
women winning thinking
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
women grace suffering
They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
women elements virtue
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
women masterpiece
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
women should masterpiece
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
women anger class
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. Gina Barreca
women dresses sophisticated
You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts. Gianni Versace
women littles tales
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. Harold Pinter
women command-and-control want
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them. Irene Rosenfeld
women desire concern
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him. Immanuel Kant
women fate giving
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
women intrigue scarce
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
women charm women-beauty
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
women young pointless
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
women handsome common
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.