Women Quotes - Page 62

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

The after-party is always at a restaurant, and for me, the fun starts when I get a cheese platter. That's as f-ed up as I get.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.