Woman Quotes
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
Kat Graham
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I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.
Thomas Hardy
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek
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I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
Maggie Cheung
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul
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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
Oscar Wilde
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Karin Slaughter
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
Gal Gadot
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
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I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
Bill Murray
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
N. K. Jemisin
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
Ina May Gaskin
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. Lawrence
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When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
Evan Esar
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Oscar Wilde
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
Patricia A. Woertz
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She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.
Flannery O'Connor
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Ada Leverson
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
Irina Shayk
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Larry David