Woman Quotes
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
Honore de Balzac
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that the main reason for creating bridal gowns has been my oriental origins, where marriage is an institution. The wedding day is the most important day of every woman’s life and her wedding gown has to be outstanding and remembered.
Zuhair Murad
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
Tertullian
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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
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
Jasper Fforde
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
Courtney Milan
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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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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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A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.
Artie Lange
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Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
Hazel Scott
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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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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
Jane Austen
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What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.
Amy Poehler
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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 woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
Alyson Richman
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It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.
Eva Ibbotson
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You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience