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Quotes About Woman

and, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour.
~ William Shakespeare
They had begun just lately—rumors about the Loftises, rumors about "another woman," whisperings which disturbed him not so much because they concerned the Loftises—whom he didn't know too well, in any case—but because they upset his notions about the prevalence of human decency.
~ William Styron
The grief is coming now, she said to herself: He's beginning to know what suffering is. Perhaps that's good in a way. Even he. Perhaps that's good for a man—finally to know what suffering is, to know what a woman somehow knows almost from the day she's born.
~ William Styron
Love isn't something you can give yourself permission for. You can't pick the time and place, or the girl. Love is God's gift to you and a woman, forever and always.
~ William W. Johnstone
Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn't make up her mind.
~ Winston Graham
Others have risen before her, and with fewer talents, I'd swear. She has a certain elegance already. In a few years it will be hard to tell her from a woman of breeding." "And she came for nothing? I doubt it. To me she looks a dangerous woman.
~ Winston Graham
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.
~ Woody Allen
When I stepped back, I must say it was very amusing to view all of these people running helter-skelter to help a nutsy woman carry out a vengeful plan. So fascinating and, as I say, not a bad idea for satire.
~ Woody Allen
Oh, my play. It's about risk, taking chances. It's about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices." "What's it called?" "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.
~ Woody Allen
Und dann war da die Frau, der ein Löwe den Sari auszog. Sie drehte sich wie ein Jojo, denn dem tödlichen Ende zog sie die tödliche Schande dann doch vor. [...] Verletzt wurde sie nicht; zahlreiche Männer eilten begeistert zu Hilfe.
~ Yann Martel
But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.
~ Christopher Isherwood
A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home
~ Unknown
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~ Clara Zetkin
Hers is an art that makes us want to know the woman; she is a woman who makes us want to know her art.
~ Clarice Lispector
And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?
~ Clarice Lispector
No fundo, Ana sempre tivera necessidade de sentir a raiz firme das coisas. E isso um lar perplexamente lhe dera. Por caminhos tortos, viera a cair num destino de mulher, com a surpresa de nele caber como se o tivesse inventado
~ Clarice Lispector
Uma jovem mulher cheia do próprio destino
~ Clarice Lispector
From top to bottom, from left to right, my glance has made a cross on that other woman, has crossed her off the face of the earth.
~ Unknown
Aquella tarde, Rita, que no era madre ni nunca lo sería, obligó a otra mujer a serlo, forzando el dogma aprendido hasta llegar al cuerpo de otro.
~ Unknown
If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man.
~ Claudio Magris
it, as she would a grand prize. The woman's dignity is at stake and is more to be valued than this one degraded coin.
~ Unknown
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.
~ Cleveland Amory
West in Buffalo Bayou. Why don't they like that? "Because it casts reasonable doubt on David West's story! "It is unreasonable to believe that a woman was
~ Clifford Irving