Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian.

Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Difficult folk, these women!

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.