Woman Quotes
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
Cesare Pavese
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Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest.
Marcello Mastroianni
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
Lily Allen
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I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
George Bernard Shaw
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For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
Elayne Boosler
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Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.
Andrea Mitchell
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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.
Randy Alcorn
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I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Honore de Balzac
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Coco Chanel
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
Victor Hugo
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A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.
Amy Poehler
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For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.
Leontyne Price
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.
Will Eisner
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In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.
Cardinal Mazarin
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I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
Courtney Love
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
Flannery O'Connor
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Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.
William Moulton Marston
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
Mike Tyson