Women Quotes - Page 99

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.