Women Quotes - Page 87

A woman always has her revenge ready.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.