Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.