Women Quotes - Page 104

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Women who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a traditional role, unfortunately don't always understand that many women aren't satisfied or content.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.

It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.