Women Quotes - Page 122

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

As women go, so goes civilization.