Quotes about women
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! Charles Dickens
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner
women believe littles
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically. Alan Ayckbourn
women thinking different
Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different. Chris Abani
women rights expression
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
women growth cherish
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning. Edith Stein
women next dresses
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. Edith Sitwell
women piano government
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
women eels people
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
women hair genius
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair. Edith Wharton
women men sells
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible. Earl Wilson
women roots branches
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. Audrey Meadows
women i-hate-you compassion
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn
women-empowerment littles next
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Audre Lorde
women responsibility gay
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.
women opportunity thinking
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. Denzel Washington
women home eagles
I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. Denise Levertov
women fall ebb-and-flow
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
women
Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table. Cynthia Carroll
women said heard
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? William Shakespeare
women weather two
Two women placed together makes cold weather.
women delicate
O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?
women self niceness
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.
women heart weak
Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!
women men
A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.
women
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. Nicolas Roeg