Women Quotes - Page 63

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.