Famous Quotes - Tags - Women
- ... no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. More
- ...women should be silent in the churches.... If there is anything they desire to know, let them... More
- A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the... More
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and... More
- A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. More
- A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband. More
- A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other... More
- A fair lady’s smile is worth more than a thousand ounces of gold. More
- A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a... More
- A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth! More
- A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my... More
- A funny business, a woman’s career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can... More
- A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. More
- A human being is a human being, a skirt is, too, otherwise he might just as well buy a whore for... More
- A lady with soft eyes like funeral tapers,
And face that seemed wrought out of moonlit... More
- A maiden marries to please her parents; a widow to please herself. More
- A man must partly give up being a man
With womenfolk. More
- A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. More
- A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call... More
- A peevish self-willed harlotry,
One that no persuasion can do good upon. More
- A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still,... More
- A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day. More
- A requirement of femininity is that a woman devote her life to love—to mother love, to romantic... More
- A strict regard for truth obliges us to say, that the few women whom we saw that day looked... More
- A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. More
- A typical minority group stereotype—woman as nigger—if she knows her place (home), she is... More
- A valiant man, Sire, fears no enemy, but the righteous anger of noble women weighs upon him as a... More
- A widow has two duties of a contradictory nature—she is a mother, and she ought to exert a... More
- A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her... More
- A wife is sought for her virtue; a concubine for her beauty. More
- A wife’s long tongue is the stairway by which misfortunes ascend into the house. More
- A wind has started a little whirlpool
of sand where the carpet ought to be,
and shells... More
- A woman cannot do the thing she ought,
Which means whatever perfect thing she can,
In... More
- A woman is a hunter without a forest. More
- A woman is a sometime thing. More
- A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can’t. Trapped in this well-built trap, A... More
- A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. More
- A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have... More
- A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. More
- A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind. More
- A woman might claim to retain some of the child’s faculties, although very limited and defused,... More
- A woman moved is like a fountain troubled.
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of... More
- A woman preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are... More
- A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. More
- A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children... More
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as... More
- A woman’s a two-face
A worrisome thing who’ll lead ya t’ sing the blues in the night. More
- A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like... More
- A woman’s pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person’s bed to the public marketplace. More
- A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her... More
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked... More
- A young woman of twenty reacts with intuitive promptitude and security in all the usual... More
- Abak he sterte, and thoughte it was amis,
For wel he wiste a womman hath no beerd. More
- About twenty years ago
Two girls came in where I worked
A bosomy English rose
And her... More
- Ah, poor our sex! This fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What... More
- Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! More
- Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty... More
- All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part, the poet in me.... If I must not, because of... More
- All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm,... More
- All of the valuable qualities ... like helping in the development of others—will not get you to... More
- All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. More
- All women are ambitious naturallie, More
- All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when... More
- American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and... More
- Among women.—”The truth? Oh, you don’t really know what ‘the truth’ is! Isn’t it an... More
- An admirable musician! O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! More
- An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel. More
- And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,... More
- And because I consider myself sexually free and morally emancipated, I am still a responsible,... More
- And she’s broad where a broad should be broad. More
- And silence her six
And mix
Her spices and core
And slice her apples, and find her... More
- And the chieftain’s head, with grinning sockets, and varnished—
Is it hung on the sky... More
- And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make... More
- Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is... More
- An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot,
An’ a-wastin’ Christian... More
- As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. More
- As children, women are encouraged to be “little ladies.” Little ladies don’t scream as... More
- As long as one sex was helped and one sex the helper, the system worked well. There was a... More
- As long as the “woman’s work” that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is... More
- As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold... More
- As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours. More
- Association with women is the basis of good manners. More
- At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put... More
- At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his... More
- At this moment, who would not remain persuaded that these women were virtuous? Are they not the... More
- Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. More
- Aw, it’s just like a woman. When the shootin’s all over and everything’s safe, they pass out. More
- Ay me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is! More
- Be a brave little Negress, a real drum with two sides, let life hit, bang at you, but always keep... More
- Be not easily won to our requests;
Play the maid’s part: still answer nay, and take it. More
- Beatrice. I am stuffed, cousin, I cannot smell.
Margaret. A maid, and stuffed! There’s... More
- Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by... More
- Beauty can be feasted on. More
- Beauty does not ensnare men; they ensnare themselves. More
- Because of something told under the famished horn
Of the hunter’s moon, that hung between... More
- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt—for... More
- Black brows they say
Become some women best, so that there be not
Too much hair there,... More
- Bobby read his future in women; his girls were omens, changes in the weather, and he’d sit all... More
- Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are.... More
- Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. More
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