Women Quotes - Page 8

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.