Woman Quotes
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.
Mireille Guiliano
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Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband. It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone
Colin Falconer
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
Lord Byron
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The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.
Alison Fell
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
Charlotte Charke
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The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
Angelica Ross
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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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She had no beauty to commend her apart from the sweetness of her smile and the kindliness of her round brown eyes, but she carried with her wherever she went that aura of almost heavenly motherliness which so often shines about a woman who has borne only one child, and in losing it has become mother to all the world, shining more wonderfully than about the mother of a dozen.
Elizabeth Goudge
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diamant
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On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
Boy George Culture Club
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A woman has no control over herself.
Martin Luther
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
Marianne Williamson
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I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman.
Josh Dallas
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Victor Hugo
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A woman knows a skirt-chaser.
Alveda King
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron
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Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.
Elena Ferrante
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I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.
Aleck Bourne
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“When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.”
Amir Sulaiman