Women Quotes - Page 107

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.