Woman Quotes
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Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.
Randy Alcorn
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I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.
Keanu Reeves
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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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It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
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A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.
Danielle Crittenden
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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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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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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
Honore de Balzac
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I’d always felt that one could read a woman’s discontent in the amount of embroidery in her sitting room. It gave me a crowded and nervous feeling to sit among so much frantic stitchery.
Amy N. Stewart
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A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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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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The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Charlotte Lennox
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Victor Hugo
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I have a girlfriend. I give my heart to her. She's around, she's everywhere, we travel together. She's beautiful, she's gorgeous, she's everything you want in a woman. She doesn't complain.. but I can tune her out just enough.
Michael Gregory Mizanin
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Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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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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I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.
Deanna Durbin
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Alexandre Dumas
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I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
Adelaide Crapsey
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Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?
Lao Tzu