Women Quotes - Page 90

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

I think that women of my generation have had a real need to form networks and friendships because it's been, as they say, a man's world, and women have felt excluded and isolated to a large degree. When women get together in numbers their strength compounds and is seen and felt by themselves and others.

Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them as kindly, no-fuss boats which patiently tend much larger, grander and more important-looking ships. They make sure these ships get to the right place as the right time, shepherding them with a pull or a push as needed. Their power is not immediately obvious but it is there - inside. I watch them a lot and never tire of seeing their unsung but absolutely essential work. The silent strong women of the sea.

I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.

While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.