Women Quotes - Page 16

• Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

  Thomas Otway

  Believe, Angel, Joy

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Dark

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Children, Responsibility, Around The World

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Compassion, Two, Enthusiasm

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• They the royal-hearted women are
  Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
  For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
  Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
  The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

  George Eliot

  Grace, Suffering, Rays

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Winning, Play

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Intimate, Third Person

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• A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Husband, Stupid

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• I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
  [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
  Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
  Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

  Plautus

  Dumb, Age, Wonder

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Law, Feminist

  In The Arena.

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• Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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  One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love, Life, Kindness

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

  Isak Dinesen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out

  Lillian Wald

  War, Men, Glamour

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• Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Witty, History

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• It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

  Isabel Colegate

  Writing, Ideas, Habit

  Isabel Colegate (2009). “The Shooting Party”, p.2, Counterpoint

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• There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

  Joyce Jillson

  Children, Flirty, Memorable

  Joyce Jillson (1986). “Fine Art of Flirting”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

  Betty Friedan

  Live Life, Lost Youth, Easier

  "The Feminine Mystique".

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• There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Memorable, Mind, Information

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  Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Girl, Mother

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Should, Gongs

  Private Lives act 3 (1930)

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• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  Faye Wattleton

  Our Society, Way, Fit

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• A bevy of fair women.

  John Milton

  Men Women, Fairs

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.382

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• It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feelings, Conversation

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.75, David M Gross

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