Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory... the future is not to be feared.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.