Women Quotes - Page 33

• In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  Boredom, Sitting, Next

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• Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

  Lily Montagu

  Prayer, Soul, Religion

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• He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

  Meera

  Religion, Tests, Century

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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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• He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Smart, Moving, Ignorance

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Self, Law, Essence

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• Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• ...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Religion, Goes On, Spirit

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1825). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage”, p.121

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• Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

  Laura Riding

  Succeed, Disputes, Conversation

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

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• The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

  Mary Somerville

  Age, Moral, Disposition

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508

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• I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

  Louise Bernikow

  Hurt, Care, Conversation

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Thinking, Elements, Levels

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Light, Yesterday, Bird

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• Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

  Zona Gale

  Conversation, Wanted

  Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”

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• Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

  Grace Paley

  Children, Important, Friendly

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

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• He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.

  Dacia Maraini

  Conversation, Knows

  Dacia Maraini (1966). “The holiday: a novel”

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• Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Husband, Son

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• Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

  Anne Desclos

  Lying, Joy, Contemplation

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• the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.

  Estelle Ramey

  Drama, Blood, Phoenix

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, People, Fake

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• Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Should, Masterpiece

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• A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Marriage, Husband, Criticism

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• That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Conversation, Amenities

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1962). “Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque", Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans”

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Children, Men

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