Woman Quotes
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
Oscar Wilde
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
Oscar Wilde
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
W. L. George
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
Dorothy Dunnett
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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Honore de Balzac
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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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Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
Anne Desclos
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Patrick Demarchelier
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Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt
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A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
Anna Katharine Green
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
Queen Rania of Jordan