Women Quotes - Page 38

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Conquer

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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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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humorous, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

  Virgil

  Leadership, Leader, Deeds

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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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• So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

  Amelia Earhart

  Names, Awards, Cake

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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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• 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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• 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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• Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

  Francis Thompson

  Views, World, April

  'The Kingdom of God' (1913)

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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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• And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Nuts, Facts

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

  James Thurber

  Running, Long, Males

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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

  Daisy Bates

  Inspirational, Enemy, Trying

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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'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Needs, Care

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• Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

  Jessamyn West

  Leadership, Distance, Numbers

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Being "in love" shouldn't cause stress; it should relieve it.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Stress, Being In Love, Causes

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