Quotes about women
women gossip brilliant
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. Lisa Kirk
women feet coffins
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now." Leo Tolstoy
women age golden
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
women social social-life
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
women world turns
... women are the pivot round which the world turns.
women cooking noir
Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir. Leo Rosten
women ceo your-favorite
'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.' Lauren Conrad
women work-out healthy
I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.
women successful ducks
If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her. Leona Helmsley
women giving birth
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment. Joseph Campbell
women responsibility doors
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? Mother Teresa
women feelings united-states
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources. Pearl S. Buck
women careers pretty-woman
The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman. Penelope Cruz
women expectations achievement
Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings. Phyllis Rose
women literature life-is
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
women memorable important
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man. Phyllis McGinley
women thinking long
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
women thinking childhood
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie. Rachel Dratch
women progress care
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind. Queen Elizabeth II
women ends existence
women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love! Madame de Stael
women writing greater
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
women people want
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
women struggle passion
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back. Gustave Flaubert
women average order
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else. Gilbert K. Chesterton
women home average
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.
women heart sorrow
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin. John Dryden
women hunting design
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
women wrinkles looks
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
women light becoming
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
women heartless littles
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. Julie Burchill
women ideas world
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
women creativity heart
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you. Judith Jamison
women humility trials
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. Judith Martin