Quotes about women
women tears addresses
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
women reading book
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
women believe overcoming
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them. Golda Meir
women expression long
Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats. Harriet Lerner
women ocean heart
So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living! Harriet Beecher Stowe
women should masterpiece
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
women littles tales
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. Harold Pinter
women thinking worry
You have only one life to live, so live it without worrying about what others may think. Jeanne Phillips
women thinking people
What other people think is their problem.
women men literature
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. Gilbert K. Chesterton
women eye light
Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. Jim Butcher
women kids boys
There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations. Jessica Alba
women advice chivalry
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one. Honore de Balzac
women virtue defects
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
women feelings stronger
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
women talking storm
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
women desire female
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
women feelings action
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
women suffering weakness
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
women dresses poetic
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
women human-nature virtue
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
women hypocrisy littles
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
women keyboards study
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
women passion europe
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
women believe passion
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
women two suffering
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
women wife world
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
women wife rooms
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
women mean liberty
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
women secret should
The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept. Isak Dinesen
women likes like-her
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial. Irvin S. Cobb
women home two
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch
women giving people
One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them. Ina Garten