Women Quotes - Page 53

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

Equality for women is progress for all.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

Wine and women bring misery.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.