Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

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!

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

Sphinxes without secrets.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Stop telling women to smile.

Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.