Quotes about women
women history god-love
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least. Dorothy Day
women reading home
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. Colleen McCullough
women thinking lines
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it. Claudia Kennedy
women memorable politics
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce
women home nurse
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
women-in-history streets walks
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Dolores Huerta
women ambition ambitious
All women are ambitious naturallie Christopher Marlowe
women house empty
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
women impossible moments
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible. Christopher Morley
women fifty novelty
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
women history victory
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. Amy Carmichael
women ifs implied
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. Amos Bronson Alcott
women raised seems
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
women humanity lines
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross. Anne Spencer
women reins
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged. Anne Tyler
women shapes
Here's the thing: I'm not in shape. Angela Kinsey
women religion way
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. Anne Roiphe
women moving typewriters
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off. Anne Sexton
women earth doe
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. Anna Howard Shaw
women equality gentleman
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
women eye light
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it. Anna Julia Cooper
women feminism causes
woman's cause is one and universal ...
women thinking good-woman
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. Anita Brookner
women simple thinking
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
women home pity
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
women people use
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
women justice soap
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. Anita Loos
women lucky misfits
I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. Claire Danes
women thinking giving
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him. D. H. Lawrence
women fame donkey
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
women safe belief
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
women literature dry
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
women function
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.