Woman Quotes
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
TertullianTertullian A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
James JoyceJames Joyce I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I found my old diary tonight. A brokenness I had forgotten pen pressured so deep it punctured page. I ran my fingers over my words and there inside ridges black I found a little girl desperate for someone to save her, desperate for the very woman I have become.
Chelsie DianeChelsie Diane Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up – and gay men should stand up at least halfway.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don’t want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don’t want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that’s how I feel about equal rights.
Cicely TysonCicely Tyson I’ve thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the ’70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia WildeOlivia Wilde If there’s one thing I’ve learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it’s listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
Rod StewartRod Stewart Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy