Women Quotes - Page 3

The mirror is the conscience of women they never do a thing without first consulting it.

Morltz G. Saphlr

Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women at any rate in childbirth.

Bertrand Russell

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Nancy Lady Astor

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Baltasar Gracián

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

Laurence J. Peter

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

English Proverb

If a woman likes another woman she's cordial. If she doesn't like her she's very cordial.

Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.

Barbey d'Aurevilly

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife good mother good looking good tempered well groomed and unaggressive.

Leslie M. Mclntyre

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.

Marianne Partridge

Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at but I wouldn't like to own one.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Nicol Williamson

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

J. K. Galbraith

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'

Pierre Beaumarchais

A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Judith Anderson

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

Terence

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

Ovid

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

Charlotte Perkins

Women can do everything men can do the rest.

Russian proverb

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Abraham Lincoln

Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.

A woman never sees what we do for her she only sees what we don't do.

Georges Courteline

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

Helen Lawrenson

A woman is always buying something.

Ovid

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman for I do care.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

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