Women Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

  Ellen Key

  Home, World, Spheres

  Ellen Key (1914). “The Renaissance of Motherhood”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

  Denise Levertov

  Home, Eagles, Knowing

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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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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• The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hard

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

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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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• In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Integrity, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.55, Routledge

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Believe

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• If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

  Harriette Simpson Arnow

  Religion, Ifs, Unpatriotic

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• My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

  Henrietta Szold

  Religious, Religion, Fundamentals

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• One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Writing, Adventure

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• Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

  Jennifer Egan

  Home, Plans, Needed

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• Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Religion, Conscience

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• Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

  Mary Livermore

  Honor, Religion, Special

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• Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

  Anne Roiphe

  Religion, Way, Worship

  Anne Richardson Roiphe (1991). “The pursuit of happiness: a novel”

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• Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Children, Believe

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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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• I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Religious, Home, Religion

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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