Women Quotes - Page 115

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.

It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and common experience. The sisterhood (including the boilers - the old chooks!) is important to me. The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk taking and hard work.

An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

You can't feel happy unless you feel free.

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!