Woman Quotes
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot -
I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Anthony Trollope -
I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She's in control.
Ravyn Lenae -
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
Eloisa James -
If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse.
Kevin Costner -
I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.
George Q. Cannon
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Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.
Hillary Clinton -
Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
Minna Antrim -
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis -
Loving a woman is always political.
Nicole Brossard -
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
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In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
Esther Duflo -
In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
Elizabeth Gould Davis -
I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?
Elizabeth Marie Pope -
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
Amina Mama -
It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
Judith Tarr -
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.
Tom Hanks -
There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.
Elaine S. Dalton -
When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.
Cary Grant