Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Jeanette Winterson

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Jeremy Taylor

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Jeremy Taylor

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

George Eliot

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

George Eliot

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

George Eliot

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

George Eliot

It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

George Eliot

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Francoise Gilot

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

George Jean Nathan

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

George Jean Nathan

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Faith Baldwin

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

Gail Kelly

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

George Eliot

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Faye Wattleton

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Farrah Fawcett

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Fannie Hurst

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Eve Ensler

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

Euripides

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

Euripides

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Euripides

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Euripides

Love's all in all to women.

Euripides

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Euripides

Woman is woman's natural ally.

Jennifer Egan

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Groucho Marx

A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

Golda Meir

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

Harriet Lerner

Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.