Women Quotes - Page 36

• Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Comfort, Acts Of Service

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• Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Parent, Matter, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Half, Language, Reasoning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “The Role of Women”

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• I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Men Women, Hard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Order, Stealing

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.156, A&C Black

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• My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Exercise, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Sacrifice, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Self, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dowry, Young

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Insult, Contraceptives, Womanhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Play, World, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Female, Purity, Should

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

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• In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

  Dorothy Dix

  Inspirational, Adventure, Nursing

  "Letters from New York: Second Series, Volume 1". Book by Lydia Maria Child ("Letter 31" (31 December 1844), p. 284), 1845.

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• Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

  William Congreve

  Flames, Destroying

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• When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Mean, Rocks

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• Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Listening, Silent Man

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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humorous, Way

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• Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

  Dorothy Dix

  Kissing, Want, Hungry

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• An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

  Earl Wilson

  Husband, Police, Records

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• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Funny, Strong Women

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• Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

  Hugh Grant

  Battle, Frightening, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

  Kathleen Norris

  Memorable, Unhappy, Should

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• Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

  Jessamyn West

  Nature, Memories, Memorable

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Soul, Faithful, Special

  Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.58

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• Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

  John Gay

  Lying, Believe, Born

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera. By John Gay. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-book, ...”, p.65

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