Women Quotes - Page 103

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up.

She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

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.]

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.