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

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Intimate, Third Person

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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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• Eve is a twofold mystery.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mystery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.81

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• Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Water, Waiting, Silver

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Littles, Able, Heroines

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.29, BookBaby

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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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• Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Contemplative Life, Creative

  Gift from the Sea ch. 2 (1955)

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• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

  George Eliot

  Sorrow, Would Be, Half

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Want, Women Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

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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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