Women Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

  Faye J Crosby

  Real, May, Tests

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

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• The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.

  Deborah Tannen

  Sex, Communication, Views

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• American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Believe, Europe

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• Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Sea, Blue

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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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• 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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• 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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• Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Conquer

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• Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.

  Nunnally Johnson

  Baby, Rivers, Looks

  "Fictional character: Ma Joad". "The Grapes of Wrath", 1940.

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• However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Speak, Enough

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• A woman impudent and mannish grown
  Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.567

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• Ah me, how weak a thing
  The heart of woman is!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Weak

  1599 Portia. Julius Caesar, act 2, sc.4, l.41-2.

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• Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

  William Shakespeare

  Self, Niceness, Handmaids

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190

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• But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sex, Uncles

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.193

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• O most delicate fiend!
  Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

  William Shakespeare

  Delicate

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.338

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• Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
  Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
  Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Angel, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, George Richard Hibbard (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.204, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Two women placed together makes cold weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Weather, Two, Together

  1613 Lord Chamberlain. Henry VIII, act1, sc.4, l.22.

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• Have you not heard it said full oft,
  A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

  William Shakespeare

  Said, Heard, Men

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.364, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Queens, Habit, Scales

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.229, Oxford University Press

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• Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Special, Custodians

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realizing, Duty, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.299, Rajpal & Sons

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• The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motherhood, Quality, Majority

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• A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fearless, Shields, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Collected Works”

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