Woman quote

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Jules Michelet

I married beneath me - all women do.

Nancy Astor

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

Mae West

Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.

Giorgio Basta

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Lois Griffin: Peter tell Chris that women are not objects!

Peter Griffin: Your mother's right Chris, listen to what it says.

Be to her virtues very kind,

Be to her faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.

Sharon Stone

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Hamlet

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

The Mourning Bride

A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord.

Bible

Ecclesiasticus

There are huge numbers of young women out there who know how to mix cocktails but can't cook to save their lives, whereas men are finding their way into the kitchen in ever growing numbers.

British chef Gordon Ramsay

When people tell me a woman can never be president I say: "We'll never know unless we try".

Hillary Clinton

The first woman to run for the US presidency

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

Betty Grable

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

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes".

Clare Boothe Luce

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do.

Helen Lawrenson

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature.

Petronius

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Deborah Kerr

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 McIntyre

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubinstein

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Mae West

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Dave Barry

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight".

Lori Gottlieb

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Gloria Steinem

A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.

Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez

I am my own woman.

Evita Perón

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

Shania Twain

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Rita Mae Brown

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Arnold Bennett

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

William Somerset Maugham

Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend.

Homer

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Dolly Parton

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

Lord Byron

A woman on time is one in nine.

Author Unknown

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the marriage.

Melissa Sadoff

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

As You Like It

I have no other but a woman's reason:

I think him so, because I think him so.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Lucetta on why she thinks Proteus is best suitor for Julia.

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

George James

A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.

John McGeorge

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

Henry Louis Mencken

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

Joaquin Miller

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Mary Ritter Beard

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

Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Helen Rowland

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Hamlet

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

Woodrow Wyatt

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.

Quotes

[ Charlie refused to come clean with the names of the students responsible for the prank; Mr. Trask is furious ]

Mr. Trask. [ furious ] I am left with no real witness. Mr. Willis's testimony is not only vague, it is unsubstantiated. The substance I was looking for, Mr. Simms, was to come from you.

Charlie Simms. [ remorseful ] I'm sorry.

Mr. Trask. I'm sorry too, Mr. Simms, because you know what I am going to do. In as much as I can't punish Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. Potter, or Mr. Jameson, and I won't punish Mr. Willis. He's the only party to this incident who is still worthy of calling himself a Baird man. I'm going to recommend to the disciplinary committee that you be expelled. Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar.

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. This is such a crock of SHIT.

Mr. Trask. Please watch your language, Mr. Slade. You are in the Baird School, not a barracks. Mr Simms, I will give you one last opportunity to speak up.

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. Mr. Simms doesn't want it. He desn't need to labeled, "Still worthy of being a Baird man". What the hell is that? What is your motto here? "Boys, inform on your classmates, save your hide. Anything short of that, we're gonna burn you at the stake"? Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay. Here's Charlie facing the fire and there's George hiding in Big Daddy's pocket. And what are you doing? You're gonna reward George and destroy Charlie.

Mr. Trask. Are you finished, Mr. Slade?

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. No, I'm just gettin' warmed up. I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell, whoever. Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one. It's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for seagoing snitches, and if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood, you better think again, because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills. What a sham. What kind of a show you guys are putting on here today? I mean, the only class in this act is sitting next to me, and I'm here to tell ya this boy's soul is intact. It's non-negotiable. You know how I know? Someone here, and I'm not gonna say who, offered to buy it. Only Charlie here wasn't selling.

Mr. Trask. Sir, you're out of order.

[ Trask hits the gavel; Col. Slade stands up angry ]

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. Out of order. I'll show YOU "out of order"! You don't know what "out of order" is, Mr. Trask. I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fucking blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a.

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. [ slams his cane on the desk, screaming ] FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do ya think you're talking to? I've been around, ya know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these. Their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There's no prostetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot solder back home to Oregon with tail between his legs, but I say you are executing his SOUL! And why? Because he's not a Baird man. Baird men. You hurt this boy, you're gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are, fuck you too!

[ the student body and the committee are in shock as Trask's anger is further aggravated ]

Mr. Trask. [ yells; hits the gavel three times ] Stand down, Mr. Slade!

Lt. Col. Frank Slade. I'm not finished! As I came in here, I heard those words, "Cradle of Leadership". Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And it has fallen here. It has fallen. Makers of men, Creators of leaders. Be careful what kind of leaders you're producing here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong. I'm not a judge or jury, but I can tell you this: He won't sell anybody out to buy his future! And that, my friends, is called integrity. That's called courage. Now that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie. He's come to the crossroads. He has chosen a path. It's the right path. It's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey. You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee. It's a valuable future. Believe me. Don't destroy it. Protect it. Embrace it. It's gonna make you proud one day, I promise you.

Women Quotes

Few men would argue that the reason the world keeps spinning on its axis each day is because of the women in our lives. From mothers and sisters to lovers and wives, women are the yang to a man's yin. There can't be one without the other. Women quotes remind us about what a gift women are, including one the perennial favorites: "Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece." Though the author is unknown, truer words have been rarely spoken, as women are indeed a masterpiece, each as unique as a snowflake. Reference. com Definition of Women

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