Woman Quotes
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot
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I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Norah Vincent
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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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The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
Edwin Hardy Amies
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That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.
Michelle Moran
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.
Elizabeth Noble
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Like a girl, but a girl who had always been a woman.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I don't think the religion makes the woman; I think the woman is who she is within the religion.
Nia Long
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It's a good time to be a woman.
Katie Louchheim
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...a woman without love for her origins is lost.
Elena Ferrante
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A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
Coco Chanel
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
Homer
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake
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She had lived her life trying to look straight at things, straight at them knowing that there would come a day when she would look at something so hard that it would look right back and break her. Well, wasn’t she made of flesh and bone? Wasn’t she made to break? Sure. Wasn’t she a woman?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them...
Brigham Young
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
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If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.
Susan Cheever
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I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.
Molly Bloom
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
Amelia Barr
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I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.
Ella T. Grasso