Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

Difficult folk, these women!

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are we in great danger?" "Don't worry, madam," he answered, "after all, we in the hands of God." "Oh," she gasped, terror written on her face, "is it as bad as that?

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.