Woman Quotes
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Honore de Balzac -
Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
Sara Gruen
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
Oscar Wilde -
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde -
I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way.
Maria Bartiromo -
They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
Iris Johansen -
I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.
George Michael -
One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
Oscar Wilde
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I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
Kate Zambreno -
I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
Ariel Pink -
But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
Colin Cotterill -
It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Little Richard
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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.
Amy Lowell -
Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.
Stevie Wonder -
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 -
I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson -
When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
Edmund White
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I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
Candice Patton -
When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who's a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we're not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I'm doing something political.
Amandla Stenberg -
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.
Bella Abzug -
Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.
Conan O'Brien