Women Quotes - Page 129

As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

I want in all cases to do right.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.