Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

D. H. Lawrence

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Constance Baker Motley

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Clara Zetkin

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

Clara Zetkin

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

Clara Zetkin

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

Clara Zetkin

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

Daniel Defoe

A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

Coretta Scott King

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Confucius

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

Confucius

Woman is the masterpiece.

Andre Maurois

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

Andre Maurois

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Andre Maurois

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Andre Maurois

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

Andre Maurois

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

Andre Maurois

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

Ambrose Bierce

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Ambrose Bierce

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

Ambrose Bierce

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

Alison Brie

What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?

Alice Paul

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Alice Walker

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Ann Wilson

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

Amelia Earhart

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Anna Quindlen

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

Alfred de Musset

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.