Woman Quotes

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height

She, Greatness, Goals

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Same, Else, Monster

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Happiness, Heart, Made

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen

Show, She, Affection

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
Steve Harvey

Wife, Give, After

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

Love, Heart, May

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Husband, Wife

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I

Work, Future, Islam

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Marriage, Goes, Contract

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

Passion, Original, Resistance

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

Beauty, Talent, Promise

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac

Beauty, Alone, Children

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot

Enough, Common, Ideal

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Become, Another, Reason

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar

Done, She, Nobody

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Susannah York

Angry, Someone, Mad

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Heart, Fire

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Vidal Sassoon

Before, Working, Young

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno

Women, Men, Successful

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Eva Gabor

Love, Beautiful, Him

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats

Women, Beautiful, School

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.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Wife, Influence

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.
Honore de Balzac

Everything, Destiny, Old

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Men, Pain

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

Another, Loves, Admiration

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas

Nature, Power, Sex

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
Denis Leary

Time, Happy, Moment

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Chris Rock

She, Looks, Sixteen

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.
Katy Perry

Strong, Through, Problems

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

Love, Her, Word

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