Woman Quotes
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She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
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Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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When you give your word to a woman, you sign a life time contract. You cannot lie to her any more.
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She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.
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All trace of the woman he had seen had vanished, leaving behind a shadow with perfect posture and no conversation. She was right. Everyone would wonder if he flirted with her. He wouldn’t even know how to manage it. One couldn’t flirt with a lump.
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As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."
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The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
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No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest.
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.
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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
