Woman Quotes

There is in every 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

Heart, Fire, Dark

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Barbara Cartland

Marriage, Good, Women

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore de Balzac

Fashion, Joy, Moment

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
George Jean Nathan

She, Says, Listens

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
James M. Barrie

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp

God, Said, Atheist

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
Rita Rudner

Men, Stupid, Makes

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Young, Idiot, Rose

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Fool, Enemy, Might

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
Henny Youngman

Help, Made, Two

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
Ani DiFranco

Become, Whatever, Idea

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

Great, Greatest, Whole

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille

Nature, Game, Quality

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin

Sex, Average, Obsessed

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

Strength, Strong, Her

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis

Greatest, Known, Sickness

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her, Trade, Weary

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

Men, Difficult, Since

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Love, God

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

Money, Old, Matter

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling

Good, Smoke, Cigar

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey

She, State, Wants

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren

Purpose, View, Dress

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust

Love, Another, Her

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sex, Words, Broken

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen

Alone, Enough, Fashion

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

Successful, Job, Her

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland

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