Women Quotes - Page 34

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.