Women Quotes - Page 79

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Being a woman is hard work.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.