Quotes about women
women order understanding
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. Helen Rowland
women order tangled
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
women eye yield
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives. Heinrich Heine
women flower pretty-woman
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
women race world
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. Henry Ward Beecher
women purity goodness
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
women character men
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters. Henry Fielding
women hard-work wrinkles
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. Helena Rubinstein
women sensibility
Sensibility is the power of woman. Johann Kaspar Lavater
women years different
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
women struggle passion
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back. Gustave Flaubert
women average order
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else. Gilbert K. Chesterton
women home average
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.
women heart sorrow
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin. John Dryden
women hunting design
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
women wrinkles looks
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
women light becoming
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
women overcoming reason
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. John Lyly
women thinking ideas
But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. Joan Sutherland
women home garden
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field. Joanna Baillie
women courageous danger
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
women
There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none. Melissa Leo
women
There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women. Laura Carmichael
women
I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart. Ralph Lauren
women work
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged. Tamara Mellon
women writing thinking
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. Diane Wakoski
women suits women-in-history
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. Dianne Feinstein
women self becoming
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. Caitlin Flanagan
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. Charles Caleb Colton
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 hair genius
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair. Edith Wharton
women roots branches
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. Audrey Meadows
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. Denise Levertov