Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

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.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.