Women Quotes - Page 131

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

It's not that I believe women are more ethical. I will say that one of women's greatest weaknesses is probably our greatest strength. We are incredibly hard on each other. We ask all the questions. Men are more easygoing. If you've ever been in a group of women, you'll recognize this: Nobody gives one woman the opportunity to lead the way without asking a whole lot of questions.

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.

The king was pregnant.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.