Women Quotes - Page 15

• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Infancy Is, Feminist

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Humor, Differences

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Memorable, Cooking

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Writing, Heart, Perfect

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

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  Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

  Amelia Earhart

  Motivational, Strong Women, Blessing

  "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Numbers, Long

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Strong, Important, Society

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• Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Thinking, Long, Firsts

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• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Maturity, Law

  Letter to John Taylor, 18 Aug. 1763

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• Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
  [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Blue, Long, Earth

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Husband, Children, Son

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• We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

  Emily Murphy

  Leadership, Strong Women, Fighting

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• I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

  Ben Jonson

  Character, Trouble, One Woman

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

  Margaret Mead

  Palaces, Slave, Plant

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• Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

  Mae West

  Marriage, Pieces, Pick Me

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

  John Fletcher

  Believe, Night, Weakness

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18

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• Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

  John Vanbrugh

  Weakness, World, Mankind

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1982). “The Provoked Wife”, p.114, Manchester University Press

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• The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Drawing, Personality, Feelings

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• A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Dragons, Wish

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.314

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• It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

  George Eliot

  Flower, Singing, Want

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.190

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• There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

  John Updike

  Men, Turns, Models

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.97, Random House

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Goal, Important, Firsts

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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