Women Quotes - Page 38

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.