Quotes about women
women mean want
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean? Miles Davis
women events action
Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event. Milan Kundera
women pride rebel
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
women men imagination
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. Marcel Proust
women example warning
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.
women squares roots
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
women vivacity gravity
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men. Joseph Addison
women dangerous wells
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature. Lisa Kleypas
women weakness world
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. John Vanbrugh
women race aliens
Women are an alien race set down among us. John Updike
women race aliens
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
women men turns
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
women world texture
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
women tease chaste
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
women quality connections
Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species. James Joyce
women done ems
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. James Russell Lowell
women wife months
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months. Laurence J. Peter
women hands wind
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view. Louise Erdrich
women heart wind
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.] Jacopo Sannazaro
women science isis
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. Henry Adams
women moral settling
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
women famous-inspirational memorable
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. Helen Hayes
women sisterhood media
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
women athlete order
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. Malcolm Muggeridge
women female purity
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity? Mahatma Gandhi
women play world
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
women insult contraceptives
Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
women believe sacrifice
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
women lying exercise
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
women heart order
I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
women may men-women
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
women half language
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
women parent matter
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.