Quotes about women
women literature dry
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. D. H. Lawrence
women equality history
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. Sonia Sotomayor
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Women have every right; they just have to excercise them. Victoria Woodhull
women pride scare
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
women land maidens
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth. Samuel Johnson
women solitude mind
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
women believe collective-effort
We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct. Roxane Gay
women kissing doubt
Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt. Ronald Reagan
women eye mind
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind. Robert Jordan
women vanity coquette
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition. William Hazlitt
women break-through modesty
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
women squares roots
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel. Marcel Proust
women vivacity gravity
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men. Joseph Addison
women passion mind
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
women mind quality
I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.
women needs world
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women. Jose Saramago
women made filled
A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
women accusing-me compass
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Khaled Hosseini
women people understanding
My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of. Kerry Washington
women self people
I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.
women two intimate
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person. Jonathan Swift
women hands wind
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view. Louise Erdrich
women heart wind
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.] Jacopo Sannazaro
women science isis
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. Henry Adams
women moral settling
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
women famous-inspirational memorable
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. Helen Hayes
women elephants never-forget
Women and elephants never forget an injury. Hector Hugh Munro
women sisterhood media
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
women athlete order
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. Malcolm Muggeridge
women female purity
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity? Mahatma Gandhi
women play world
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.