Women Quotes - Page 58

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

Most women have no characters at all.

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.