Women Quotes
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.
I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.
Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.