Quotes About Woman

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Toda mujer que ama es una pobre inocente.

Kobieta musi mie? w sobie to coÅ›, mówiÅ', swojÄ… tajemnicÄ™, wtedy dopiero jest warta zachodu.

Go home, old woman, I'm tired and you're annoying me.

It's a woman's prerogative to know of magic, and to practice magic, and to use her knowledge to help the world.

Mary's was a virgin birth, and the word virgin means a woman unto herself. The actualized woman is powerful unto herself and gives birth to things divine. Today we have the chance to give birth to a healed and transformed world.

The world is meant to be a safe and nurturing environment for children. The fact that it isn't is a sacred call to action for every conscious woman.

When we are without joy, we grope in the dark. When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. A joyful woman, by merely being, says it all. The world is terrified of joyful women.

For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.

And then Matilda answered her own question because the truth was that Mary-Alice had no idea. "If a man is going to abandon a woman, he will do it for other reasons. He will not abandon her because he gets married." Mary-Alice

In those days there was a lot of pride involved in the way a woman's wash looked, especially the white things.

He felt that flush of antagonism a poor man feels for a rich woman who is in some way asserting her superiority to him because of a wealth and social position.

Las referencias feroces, aunque vagas, que escuchaba en boca de los cadetes, estimulaban su imaginación. En sueños, el nombre se presentaba dotado de atributos carnales, extraños y contradictorios, la mujer era siempre la misma y distinta, una presencia que se desvanecía cuando iba a tocarla o lo sumía en una ternura infinita y entonces creía morir de impaciencia.

Les insultes d'une femme sont des fleurs pour un homme.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

I am the last prophet. A woman?

He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

A woman's power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists.

I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.

And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say!

Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.