Women Quotes - Page 125

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

A woman should be an illusion

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

No trust is to be placed in women.

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.