Woman Quotes

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

You know, most people really don't know me.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

Woman absent is woman dead.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I have never met an ugly woman.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.