Women Quotes - Page 18

• A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

  Rick Warren

  Godly, Pastor, Threatened

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Art, Thinking, People

  Katharine Hepburn (1991). “Me: stories of my life”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

  Benny Hill

  Girl, Naked, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  Alice James

  Memorable, Doctors, Interviews

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Opportunity, Roots

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Smart, Healing

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• I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

  Gilda Radner

  Funny, Cute, Clothes

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Equality, Feminist, Heartless

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• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Real

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

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• You're all you've got.

  Ann Landers

  "Fictional character: Whistler". "Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Becoming: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

  Barbra Streisand

  Strong Women, Men, Obsessed

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• Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

  Patricia Briggs

  Giving, Demand, Lifetime

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• And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

  Kristin Hannah

  Girl, Kissing, Devil

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Memorable, Important, One Man

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Dry, Tiny

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Diversity, Poetry, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

  Gelett Burgess

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• I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

  Leila Khaled

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Knowledge, Knowing

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Suicide, Husband

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Ems, Foolish

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

  George Eliot

  Memorable, Opposites, Common

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.54, 谷月社

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