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Quotes About Woman

The ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.
~ Margaret Atwood
He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman
~ Margaret Atwood
Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman. I think we found this frightening.
~ Margaret Atwood
Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can't remember. They
~ Margaret Atwood
recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much
~ Margaret Atwood
Some might call the overthrowing of an illegitimate government an act of treason; without a doubt, many have had this thought about me. Now that you have joined us, it is the same thought that others will have about you. But loyalty to a higher truth is not treason, for the ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.
~ Margaret Atwood
I've become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?
~ Margaret Atwood
Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.
~ Margaret Atwood
La notte e vicina per me. Those were the words that an elderly Italian woman, an old crone who swept the stairs, had uttered to Fran when she was working as an au pair girl in Florence, a hundred years ago.
~ Margaret Drabble
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain
~ Margaret Mitchell
She was a woman now and youth was gone.
~ Margaret Mitchell
For a woman, love comes after marriage.
~ Margaret Mitchell
No one seemed to realize what really possessed her, what drove her like a mad woman. It was a passion to get her affairs in order before she had to retire behind doors, to have as much money as possible in case the deluge broke upon her again, to have a stout levee of cash against the rising tide of Yankee hate. Money was the obsession dominating her mind these days. When she thought of the baby at all, it was with baffled rage at the untimeliness of it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.
~ Buju Banton
Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.
~ Hillary Clinton
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.
~ Fatema Mernissi
Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.
~ Hettie Jones
Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.
~ Jose Canseco
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
~ Denise Levertov
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
~ Robert Frost
A maiden-woman, as independent as myself, need not envy any girl the doubtful blessing of a husband. I chose to be independent, and I am, and what more is there to be said about it?
~ Anna Katharine Green
A woman is a victim of her own emotions.
~ Anna Katharine Green