Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

How can I ever miss you when you never go away?

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.