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Quotes About Woman

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
~ Irvine Welsh
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.
~ John Cheever
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Even if Shawn and Paul wanted to team up to murder people they thought had wronged them, there seemed little chance that the woman she'd just met would have had any part in that.
~ Maureen Johnson
It is easier, as Michelet suggested, for a woman to change her opinion of a man than for him to change his opinion of himself.
~ Max Beerbohm
The gods can make a man ridiculous through a woman, but they cannot make him ridiculous when they deal him a blow direct. The very greatness of their power makes them, in that respect, impotent.
~ Max Beerbohm
He had heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
~ Max Beerbohm
Of all the emotions, hatred is the most excruciating. Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Of all deaths, the bitterest that can befall a man is that he lay down his life to flatter the woman he deems vilest of her sex.
~ Max Beerbohm
have seen that same smile which stirs the heart of a woman and makes a man reach for his revolver.
~ Max Brand
As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.
~ Max Frisch
How many children are really wanted? The fact that the woman would rather have it once it's there is a different matter, an automatic reaction of the instincts, she forgets she tried to avoid it and added to this is the feeling of power over the man, motherhood as an economic weapon in the hands of the woman.
~ Max Frisch
a woman with time on her hands in the morning, a woman who wanders about before she is dressed, for example, rearranging flowers in a vase and talking about love and marriage, is something no man can stand, I believe, unless he dissembles.
~ Max Frisch
There was such a thing as woman's work and it consisted chiefly, Hillary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper.
~ May Sarton
It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready. She must see, even if only in secret, that she is the funniest, looniest woman in her world, which she should also see as being the most absurd world of all times.
~ Maya Angelou
The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
~ Maya Angelou
The man who is a bigot, is the worst thing God has got, except his match, his woman, who really is Ms. Begot.
~ Maya Angelou
A woman] will need to prize her tenderness and be able to display it at appropriate times in order to prevent toughness from gaining total authority and to avoid becoming a mirror image of those men who value power above life, and control over love.
~ Maya Angelou
When you learn, teach. When you get, give" "But still, like dust, I'll rise" "I'm not on top but I call it swell if I'm able to work and get paid right..." "I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
~ Maya Angelou
Then after the fray, if I see I have vanquished you I would be embarrassed that I have brought all the pain, brought all the joy, brought all the fear, and the glory that I have lived through, to triumph over a single woman who did not know that she should be careful of who she calls out and I would not like myself very much.
~ Maya Angelou
Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.
~ Maya Angelou
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
~ Maya Angelou
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her
~ Maya Banks
Do you know how impossible it is to ignore that woman? I'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to notice.
~ Maya Banks
She may not be a mighty warrior, but one thing she'd learned after observing her mother, was that if anything could fell a warrior, it was a determined woman
~ Maya Banks