Woman Quotes
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
George Washington
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The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.
Cheryl Clarke
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It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
August Strindberg
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I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Coco Chanel
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Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.
Tracy Reese
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
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A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
Arnold Haultain
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Woman is also the element of conflict.
Marcello Mastroianni
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
Katharine Hepburn
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Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.
Charles Dickens
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
Victor Hugo
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
Lao Tzu
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The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.
James Keller
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I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Catherine Deneuve
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If a woman possessed the unfortunate combination of delicate skin, thin eyebrows, a curving spine and a ‘sharp tongue’, it would be almost impossible for a man to refrain from beating her.
Catharine Arnold
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Yes, life is a woman!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.
Betsy Prioleau
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The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016, it is still a luxury. I'd say when you're young, look for someone, an older woman, you'd like to emulate. Not necessarily her career, but the soul and essence of that woman. I use women like Susan Taylor and Tyra Banks to girdle me up so I can find my own strength and forge my own path.
Eva Pigford
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
Friedrich Nietzsche