Woman Quotes
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare -
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer -
I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.
Steve Jobs -
Charm is a matter of luck, but I’m sure: to some extent, every woman has it.
Ornella Muti -
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.
Coco Chanel -
I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 -
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 -
I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
Anita Diamant -
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
Catherine Ashton -
On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
Boy George Culture Club -
When moonlight touches you, it’s time for a woman to sit back and think, really think, about her life.
Cathy Lamb
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When a woman begins to point out that she is honest, it's time to be wary.
Alfred Capus -
Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
Cheryl Clarke -
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Victor Hugo -
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman
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A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.
Marge Piercy -
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
Vivienne Ming -
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?
Erica Jong