Women Quotes - Page 47

Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Life's too short to bullshit.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.