Sophocles Quotes

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

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• The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Know

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Women
  • You
  • Forget

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

  

  Zendaya
  • Women
  • You
  • How

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Women
  • Think
  • Grace

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Women
  • Love
  • Know

• I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Bird

• I think you have to have the talent, and guys have to believe in what you're doing. Everybody has to play to the end.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Believe

• Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Self
  • Luxury
  • Pity

• Silence gives the proper grace to women.

  

  Sophocles
  • Women
  • Silence
  • Grace