Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?
That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
Most women have no characters at all.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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