Quotes about women
women clothes trying
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. Barry Watson
women justice weakness
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. Arthur Schopenhauer
women doubt literature
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. Elbert Hubbard
women literature intimacy
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen
women office religion
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Do we need everyone to be engineers? No. But we need more, and we need more women (in the field).
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I regard other women as my community, not my competition. Gina Barreca
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I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth. Andie MacDowell
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. Cate Blanchett
women might few-words
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! Anna Jameson
women passion talking
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
women said made
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
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There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women. Liz Phair
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. Rachel Cusk
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We try not to be all things to all women, Kate White
women feelings outcomes
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. Dorothea Brande
women love-is literature
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. Doris Lessing
women real silly
Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly. Doris Lessing
women slave women-beauty
Women are slaves to their beauty. Doris Lessing
women past lines
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. Doris Lessing
women thinking numbers
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small. Doris Lessing
women people focus
All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. Doris Lessing
women religion cards
i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right Ani Difranco
women lying silence
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. Alison Lurie
women flower simple
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms. Alfred Lord Tennyson
women half charm
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. Alexander Pope
women looks paradise
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God. Alexander Pope
women race heaven
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. Alexander Pope
women play cards
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones. Alexander Pope
women needs world
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. Dorothy Thompson
women laughing tears
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. Dorothy Dix
women age poverty
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. Dorothy Dix
women tears occupation
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. Dorothy Dix