Women Quotes - Page 77

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess - we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.