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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• An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Home, Leaving, Unusual

  William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

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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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• Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

  Kate Simon

  Home, Knowing, Tears

  Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

  Ellen Key

  Mother, Home, Soul

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• The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hard

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 6, l. 205

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• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  Eudora Welty

  Home, Ironing Board, Piano

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Home, Space

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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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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• 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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• Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into that warm, cradled state reminiscent of childhood that's so seductive to a woman - a home.

  Colette Dowling

  Giving Up, Home, Self

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• And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

  Mary McGrory

  Leadership, People, Darkness

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• Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

  Joanna Baillie

  Home, Garden, Hoe

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• Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Girl, Queens, Garden

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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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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• [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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• 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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• I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

  Maxine Kumin

  Home, Light, Hands

  Maxine Kumin (1987). “In deep: country essays”, Viking Pr

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