Woman Quotes
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
Marge Piercy
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
Rachel Cusk
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One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.
Scarlett Johansson
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies me overcoming the situation I was in and just that triumphant kind of song. So, I felt like I wanted to go ahead and get that out of both of our systems with 'Good Woman'.
La'Porsha Renae
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The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
Alec Waugh
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
George Bernard Shaw
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When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.
Tammy Duckworth
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Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
Ida Lupino
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Tawni O'Dell
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
Gail Sheehy
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
Adam Ferrara
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
Olin Miller
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
Saffron Burrows
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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
Oprah Winfrey
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard
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Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
Amy Lowell
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Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
Lesley Lawson
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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski -
No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.
Eden Phillpotts
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
Rachel Roy