Women Quotes - Page 95

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.