Women Quotes - Page 31

• The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hard

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Home, House, Going Away

  Josephine Preston Peabody, “The House And The Road”

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• She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Home, Sleep

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.106, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

  Elayne Boosler

  Mother, Home, Eye

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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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• We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all mean the same thing; all good minds in every religion aim at pleasing the Supreme Being; the means we take differ according to where we are born, and the prejudices we imbibe from education; a consideration which ought to inspire us with kindness and indulgence to each other.

  Frances Brooke

  Kindness, Mean, People

  Frances Brooke (2010). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.112, New Canadian Library

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

  Harriette Simpson Arnow

  Religion, Ifs, Unpatriotic

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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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• Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

  Riane Eisler

  Spiritual, Powerful, Order

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• That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, War, Effort

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