Woman Quotes

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg

Age, Treat, Her

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

Heart, May, Him

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

Two, Tough, She

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior

Her, Perfume, Tells

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois

Life, Work, Great

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov

Young, Write, Cook

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen

Marriage, Refuse, Offer

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
Sean Connery

Same, Wrong, Though

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service

Life, Long, Wine

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis

Politics, Struggle, Fight

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Strong, Trouble, Feels

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Feeling, Thinking, Difficult

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Stendhal

Men, Her, Youth

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein

Sexy, Her, Boyfriend

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod

Trusted, Whoever

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland

Nature, Forget, Help

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.
Marilyn Manson

Saying, Find, Lose

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

Powerful, She, Influence

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Men, Feelings, Made

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Thinking, Old, Again

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
Robert Johnson

Peace, Made, Treat

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland

Others, Himself, Thinks

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings

Happiness, Time, Lost

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

Real, Find, Days

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir

Rather, Born, Becomes

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins

Life, Age, Judge

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

Important, Her, Talent

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

Love, Battle, Her

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