Women Quotes - Page 30

• While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

  Jessie Daniel Ames

  Political, Millennium, Suffrage

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• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Passing Away, Benefits, Social

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• Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Ugly, Beautiful Women

  "Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times".

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• A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beautiful, Flower, Principles

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• The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Female, Purpose, May

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• Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Change, Morning

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• Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Coquetry

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• Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Dresses, Use

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• Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Children, Men

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• I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Long, Ends, Found

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.563

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• There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Years, Together, Twenties

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• No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Long, Together, Littles

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.356

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• Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Passion, Half

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• O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Book, Angel

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• Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Way, Lovers, He Man

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Heart, Reflection, Mirrors

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• There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Jewels, World, Virtuous Woman

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.100

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• The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Trying, Done

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9366, Delphi Classics

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• Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Mother, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Religious, Soul

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• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Safe, Belief, Force

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Men, Pioneers

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5279, Delphi Classics

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• Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mother, Century, Customs

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• I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

  H. G. Wells

  Imagination, Understood, Men

  "Fictional character: Rowena". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Heart, Doctors

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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