Women Quotes - Page 13

• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Grandmother, Law

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• There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
  A woman's at the bottom.
  [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

  Juvenal

  Cases, Bottom, Scarce

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• Who can describe
  Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
  Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
  Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
  The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

  Thomas Otway

  Anger, Hypocrisy, Mind

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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• Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Decorum, Length, Greater

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
  We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Ems, May, Scorn

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• A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
  [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

  Plautus

  Anger, Males, Easier

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• It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Reason

  Jeremiah Burroughs (1865). “An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea”, p.479

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• Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Implied, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below
  Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Men, Providence

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886). “Poems”

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• Not from his head was woman took,
  As made her husband to o'erlook;
  Not from his feet, as one designed
  The footstool of the stronger kind;
  But fashioned for himself, a bride;
  An equal, taken from his side.

  Charles Wesley

  Husband, Taken, Feet

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• 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?

  Owen Feltham

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hair, Wife, Lovely

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2008). “Faust”, p.178, PR Seitz Bookseller

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• A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words.
  [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort
  Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Noble Man, Gentle, Men

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deeds, Noble, Common

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

  Eminem

  Funny, Hate, Mad

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• I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Staring

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• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Giving, Quality, Affection

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.310

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• I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

  Harold Pinter

  Littles, Tales, Dread

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Moonlight”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Men, Opposites

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• Most women have no characters at all.

  Alexander Pope

  Anger, Character

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.2.

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• 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.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• 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.

  Shemar Moore

  Inspirational, Strength, Weakness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

  Gloria Steinem

  Space, Pedestal, Prison

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• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

  Bell Hooks

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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