Women Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Worry, Privilege

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

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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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• Woman is the lesser man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Thinking, Feminism, Today

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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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• The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Passion

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• It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Spiritual, Father, Thinking

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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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• Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Heart, Reflection, Mirrors

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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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• O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Book, Angel

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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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• I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Long, Ends, Found

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.563

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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