Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.