Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Love's all in all to women.

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Make believe I'm right.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.