Woman Quotes
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.
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I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.
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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.
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I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
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A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.
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Whoever of ye Whigs thinks I am to be Hecktor'd or frighted into a Complyance tho I am a woman, are mightely mistaken in me. I thank God I have a Soul above that, & am too much conserned for my reputation to do any thing to forfeit it.
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An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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A woman who has style doesn't necessarily need designers - designer wear. A woman who has style can put on any frock or dress or pant or whatever and still bring something to it.
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God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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I've never cheated on a woman.
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My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.
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The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life, then the lives of her family, her clan, her people. But not her own life. Not quite. In pity and punishment she was turned into an undying tree, a rowan that weeps only in the presence of transcendent love; and the tears of the rowan are blossoms that confer extraordinary grace upon those who can see them. When enough tears are wept, the rowan will be free. She waits inside a sacred ring that can be neither weighed or measured nor touched. She waits for love that is worth her tears. The rowan is waiting still.
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Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.
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If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
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A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
