Woman Quotes
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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
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When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.
Christina Stead
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
Bram Stoker
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I'm an Isabel Marant woman: I love her style so much.
Melanie Thierry
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She was glad that she had not let on to Lonzo how she felt; a woman has business to be as strong as a man. No, a woman has to be stronger than a man. A man don't mind laying the ax between a calf's eyes; a woman does mind, and has to stand by and watch it done. A man fathers a little un, but a woman feels it shove up against her heart, and beat on her body, and drag on her with its weight. A woman has to be stronger than a man.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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I think it's a really excellent time to be a woman in music. A lot of the past was women fighting to be where women are now. Every once in a while I'll get the, "Oh, you're a pretty good guitar player for a girl," bullshit like that. But that's all changing.
Emily Kokal
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
George Eliot
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
Esther Vilar
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I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
Frederic Chopin
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There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become Cranky, and start wars.
Nicole Hollander