Woman Quotes
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
Victor Hugo
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Although computer science tends to be thought of as a traditionally male-dominated field, the world’s first programmer was a woman.
Brian Christian
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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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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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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
Hector Hugh Munro
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Honore de Balzac
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
Douglas Jerrold
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Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic.
Ellen von Unwerth
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
Oprah Winfrey
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Coco Chanel
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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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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
Mahatma Gandhi
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
Elizabeth Wein
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In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate. She who was revered and worshiped by early man because of her power to see the unseen will once again be the pivot—not as sex but as divine woman—about whom the next civilization will, as of old, revolve.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.
Nicola Roberts
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She was a sweet woman who was handed an extremely cruel fate.
Paula Zahn
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
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The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.
Carolyn Mahaney
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There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
Martin Luther