Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe in government of the people by the people and for the people, then you believe in fair play. So when you tax women, give them the vote as well.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.