Woman Quotes
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A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism.
Alexander Polinsky -
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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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Saul Steinberg -
She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
Courtney Milan -
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Alfred de Musset -
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
Lord Byron -
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
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You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.
Alicia Keys -
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Honore de Balzac -
I have a DVD of 'Lois & Clark,' and I don't know how the special effects hold up, because all the technology's gotten so much better. But the writer - the woman that wrote 'Lois & Clark' - I think those stories were good.
Michael Landes -
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.
Charles Dickens -
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Simone de Beauvoir -
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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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow -
A woman with good shoes i never ugly!
Coco Chanel -
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
Bob Marley -
It's natural to feel jittery around new people. But sometimes you can get over your jitters if you make a joke. So when the Swedish housekeeper brought her breakfast on a tray, Charity said something cheeky about eating Lady Margaret out of house and home. But the big red-faced woman took no notice at all. So then Charity had to look totally relaxed and unconcerned as she enjoyed her breakfast in bed, which was easy enough after the first bite. The spooky Swedish housekeeper really was a fabulous cook. And Charity believed believed in looking for the best in people.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
Robin Williams -
Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
Bonnie St. John
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Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
Cathy Guisewite -
I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her personal style.
Nina Garcia -
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
Ace Antonio Hall -
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