Women Quotes - Page 29

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.