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Quotes About Woman

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
~ Bob Marley
The land's like a woman. Tame her gently, treat her good, and you'll never be without her. Strip her bare, and she'll be colder than a whore's heart.
~ Bonnie K. Winn
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
~ Book of Proverbs
All in all, Varya felt much the same as she had in the restaurant of the Hotel Royale when the men had caught the scent of blood and run wild, entirely forgetting that she even existed - yet another proof that by his very nature man was closer to the animal world than woman, that the feral principle was more pronounced in man, and therefore the true variety of Homo Sapiens was indeed woman, the more advanced, subtle and complex being.
~ Boris Akunin
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
~ Boris Pasternak
The newspapers continue to bring bad news from China. I do not trust news which comes indirectly, and from afar at that, but - Do you remember that old tale of the woman who gave birth to an elephant? When the truth was discovered, it appeared that the midwife had said the child's nose looked a bit long . . . still, I worry.
~ Botan
He had to see her face, listen to her voice. She had no reason to hide, and it was his duty to get as close as he could to all suffering. He wanted to say to the woman in black—as he would later to Zakya's children—that the dead of Murambi, too, had dreams, and that their most ardent desire was for the resurrection of the living.
~ Boubacar Boris Diop
Simplificando, podría decirse que cada hombre se encuentra situado en una área social de matrimonio, y la regla establece que puede tomar esposa fácilmente en su área y en las áreas inferiores.
~ Bourdieu Pierre
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
~ bovee christian nestell ii
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
~ bovee christian nestell iv
Men and women don't have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.
~ Brad Miner
chivalry demands that a man respect a woman's wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady's lackey.
~ Brad Miner
A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.
~ Brad Miner
Matt opened the door, forcing sunlight into a place bathed in darkness. The men—there was only one woman here right now and she'd hit you if you called her a lady—blinked like bats who'd had a flashlight shined on them. There was no jukebox playing, no music at all. The conversations were kept as low as the lights. Mel
~ Harlan Coben
A tall woman in a blue business suit and fancy sunglasses strolled purposefully down the sidewalk. Myron smiled at her, and she returned it. He would have preferred a faint or even a small swoon, but you can't have everything.
~ Harlan Coben
I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.
~ Harold Bloom
The vision men call Lilith is formed primarily by their anxiety at what they perceive to be the beauty of a woman's body, a beauty they believe to be at once, far greater and far less than their own.
~ Harold Bloom
must safeguard the woman from his past who is nurturing a ticking time bomb of a secret. The momentum keeps building as Sylvie Kurtz launches
~ Harper Allen
I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.
~ Harper Lee
they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?' 'She wants a father instead of a husband, then.' 'That's what it amounts to,' she said. 'The books are right on the score.
~ Harper Lee
I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf woman.
~ Harper Lee
Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.
~ Harry Bingham
I've finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you've met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you're suffocating. The same emotion hasn't changed at all in a thousand years.
~ Haruki Murakami
It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
~ Haruki Murakami