Women Quotes - Page 86

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

Only cowards torture women.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness