Quotes about women
women different reason
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana
women thinking tests
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. George Meredith
women men lasts
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. George Meredith
women milk reason
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts. George Meredith
women fate perfect
I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow. Faith Baldwin
women careers people
You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support. Gail Kelly
women memorable opposites
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. George Eliot
women suffering done
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. Henry Miller
women knowing evil
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man. Henri Frederic Amiel
women memorable age
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller
women sky flying
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller
women responsibility justice
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller
women monsters literature
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. George Eliot
women stupid ems
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. George Eliot
women winning thinking
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline. George Eliot
women grace suffering
They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. George Eliot
women elements virtue
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. George Eliot
women thinking hot-and-cold
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of. George Eliot
women accepting made
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. George Eliot
women men be-good
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly. George Eliot
women flower singing
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound. George Eliot
women sorrow half
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. George Eliot
women history historical
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot
women done has-beens
Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone. Francoise Gilot
women humor cosmetics
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. George Jean Nathan
women wife firsts
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. George Jean Nathan
women addresses compliment
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
women rocks charity
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
women men doe
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot. Isabel Allende
women men
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Friedrich Nietzsche
women depth fathom
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. Friedrich Nietzsche
women bird height
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. Friedrich Nietzsche
women rome bed
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. Franz Grillparzer