Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.

More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.

Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs.

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.

My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!

My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

My men have become women, but the women men.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

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!

My way of thinking is better than yours.

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.