Women Quotes - Page 105

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

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.

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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.