A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Emma Goldman

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Dean Koontz

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Jon Bon Jovi

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