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Quotes About Woman

A woman is a sometime thing.
~ DuBose Heyward
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.
~ Robert Graves
A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
~ Zadie Smith, On Beauty
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Yes, life is a woman!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
~ Frederick Lenz
Where love is absent there can be no woman.
~ George Sand
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.
~ Frederick Lenz
A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.
~ Gail Carriger
Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.
~ Donald Evans
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
~ Doris Lessing
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
~ Dorothy Richardson
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
~ Elaine A. Cannon
As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.
~ Elaine A. Cannon
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
~ Emma Goldman
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
~ Frederick Lenz
Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
~ George Bernard Shaw