Quotes about women
women winning clothes
To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her. Jean Giraudoux
women sky mind
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
women sage poet
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. Jean Ingelow
women expression sheep
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. James Agate
women years feet
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.
women equality progress
when women progress, all of society benefits. Hillary Clinton
women home feminist
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
women motherhood wife
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale. Herbert Croly
women saint natural
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. Evelyn Waugh
women curves embrace
I love my curves and I embrace them. Eva Mendes
women drama blood
the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore. Estelle Ramey
women thinking matter
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had. Ernest Hemingway
women home ironing-board
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are. Eudora Welty
women seems
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden. Erma Bombeck
women talking columns
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
women play roles
It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role. Florida Scott-Maxwell
women white hot-flashes
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy. Florence King
women mean space
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
women nursing opportunity
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
women our-society way
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category. Faye Wattleton
women memorable brain
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. Farrah Fawcett
women men half
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. Fannie Hurst
women violence mechanism
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place. Eve Ensler
women evil terrible
There is no evil as terrible as a woman. Euripides
women earth herbs
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
women reflection form
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
women men-women
Love's all in all to women.
women
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
women allies natural
Woman is woman's natural ally.
women accusation
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible. Frances Perkins
women being-in-love love-is
I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive. Fran Lebowitz
women wife empresses
I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
women people original-thought
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.