Women Quotes - Page 85

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Women have no government.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would seem that a woman's success in any particular field would prove her fitness for that work, without regard to theories to the contrary.