If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Josh Billings

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Gracie Allen

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
George S. Kaufman

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.
Brittany Murphy

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.
Charles Manson