Women Quotes - Page 116

Yes, life is a woman!

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

When a man declares to you: "I am sure of my wife," it means that he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares to you: "I am sure of my husband," it nearly always means that she is sure of herself.

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.

It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.

The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.