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Quotes About Woman

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~ John Mason Brown
I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
woman out there watching—many of whom idolize Margaret and think of her as a pioneer who broke through very thick, very real glass ceilings—to know that success always comes with a price and that greatness often doesn't allow for balance.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
All Ursula can come up with is that when people were alone in the voting booth, they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman. The problem wasn't Ursula. It was American society. Of course Ursula harbored plenty of private fears
~ Elin Hilderbrand
There was nothing attractive about a woman of a certain age taking a nap.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
a woman has "it" when she exhibits a "magnetism" which is irresistible, "unorthodox" in her ways.
~ Elinor Glyn
?lov?k v sedmi letech nezná sv?tské špatnosti, nezná bolest a nezná nedoufání, neskli?ují ho vidiny, ale zná ženu. Nikdy zplozenec mužského pohlaví nezná ženu tak jako v sedmi letech. Je pro n?ho tehdy nikoliv oporou, nikoliv radostí a ani žertem. Je jistotou sv?ta; je nesmrtelná.
~ Elio Vittorini
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The chances are that, being a woman, young, And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes, You write as well...and ill...upon the whole, As other women. If as well, what then? If even a little better,..still, what then? We want the Best in art now, or no art." (L144-149)
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I cannot believe of any woman that she can think of fame first. A woman of genius may be absorbed, indeed, in the exercise of an active power, engrossed in the charges of the course and the combat; but this is altogether different to a vain and bitter longing for prizes, and what prizes, oh, gracious heavens! The empty cup of cold metal! so cold, so empty to a woman with a heart.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Have you read 'Shirley,' and is it as good as 'Jane Eyre'? We heard not long since that Mr. Chorley had discovered the author, the 'Currer Bell.' A woman, most certainly.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman in the West? You show me one who doesn't drink, and I'll show you one that wants to.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A quirk of a smile. From another woman, the comment might have been flirtatious. From Carel, it came with level appraisal and a touch of a frown.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The necromancer framed the dead woman's eyes with soft fingertips, and leaned so close that Tristen felt as if he had interrupted a seduction.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She semed calm as she watched Julian pack food away, and not at all lik a woman contemplating a Dragon. A duel.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Queen's voice had dropped, softened. Carel recognized it: the voice of the woman, not the Queen, unheard in seven years. In another circumstance, she might have found it beautiful.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The tilt of the Technomancer's head was an old woman's mockery of a young woman's simpering. It charmed him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You have trodden paths on which you would never have set foot were it not for my urging - " She broke off and searched his face. "But you need to know that I would follow you barefoot and in my shift and still be the proudest woman in England.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
That small caress, such a simple show of affection, unleashed something coiled deep within Kenric. In that moment he finally understood what drove men to wage wars over a woman, why a man would give almost anything to possess the woman he wanted above all others. No amount of gold, fame, or glory could come close to arousing the emotions she stirred in him. Nothing else in the world.
~ Elizabeth Elliott
An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.
~ Elizabeth George
You're a sick woman. In a state of physical weakness it's so much easier to function in the groove you know. It seems to hold you together.
~ Elizabeth Goudge