Women Quotes - Page 40

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

Men's vows are women's traitors

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

Women power is a formidable force.

I always respect a woman.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.