Woman Quotes
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Alfred de Musset
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
Robert Frost
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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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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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You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Bernardino of Siena
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Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.
Hamid Drake
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But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.
Michelle Dean
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I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.
Alma Adams
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
Winona Ryder
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If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.
Oprah Winfrey
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'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.
William Shakespeare
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
Edwidge Danticat
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I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
Isak Dinesen
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
Alfred de Musset
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
Cesare Pavese
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I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.
Lisa Edelstein
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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.
Georges Courteline
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I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
Wes Anderson
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Anyway, I would not be happy to see a beautiful, well-proportioned woman, no matter from which point of view, however extravagant, not only lose her beauty in order to, I would say, increase in size according to the law of vision, but no longer appear beautiful, and, in fact, become monstrous.
El Greco