Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

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 societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

All women are ambitious naturallie