Women Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

  Anne Desclos

  Powerful, Love Is, Needs

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• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Fall, White

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Opportunity, Calling

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• I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Running, Strong

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

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Marriage, Husband, Criticism

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• Farewell, woman! I intend
  Henceforth every night to sit
  With my lewd, well-natured friend,
  Drinking to engender wit.

  John Wilmot

  Drinking, Farewell, Night

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.73, Taylor & Francis

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• Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Should, Masterpiece

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• A woman is a sometime thing.

  DuBose Heyward

  DuBose Heyward (2003). “A DuBose Heyward Reader”, p.121, University of Georgia Press

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• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Moving, Giving, World

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• I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Truth, Honesty

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• Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

  Lew Wallace

  Hurt, Affection, Worst

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (A Tale of the Christ): Historical Novel”, p.358, e-artnow

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• A woman's noblest station is retreat.

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

  Retreat, Stations

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• A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

  Fool, Cunning

  "Advice to a Lady". Poem by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, 1731.

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• It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

  Jacques Pierre Brissot

  Genius, Difficult, Forgiven

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• It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Memories, Glasses

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• Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

  Laura Riding

  People, Way, Has Beens

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• I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Believe, Class, Giving

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• Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

  Carolyn Warner

  Angel, Years, Once Upon A Time

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• As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Cat, Dark, Night

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Life, Together, Stories

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

  Cathy Crimmins

  Years, Breathing, Wife

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• I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.

  Alice Moore Hubbard

  Believe, Equal, Ifs

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• The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
  Younger and pinker every year,
  Bloom gradually out of reach.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Girl, Years, Academia

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

  Faye J Crosby

  Mother, Home, Skills

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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