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Quotes About Woman

Mais, à ce moment précis, je me suis sentie femme, salement femme, comme je ne l'avais jamais senti, comme je ne l'ai plus jamais senti. Défendre ma propre peau ne me permettait pas de blesser un homme.
~ Virginie Despentes
When I was on unemployment I was not ashamed of being a social outcast. Just furious. It's the same thing for being a woman: I am not remotely ashamed of not being a hot sexy number but I am livid that—as a girl who doesn't attract men—I am constantly made to feel as if I shouldn't even be around.
~ Virginie Despentes
Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama
~ Vivian Gornick
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
~ Voltaire
Stella, Tinkerbell, and Emmet. Why on earth would a woman want three cats?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
~ W. C. Fields
The Bible says that man lying with another man as with a woman is an abomination. I have never lain with a man as if he were a woman. I have no interest in such a thing. If I lie with a woman, it is because she is a woman and I want to treat her as one. If I lie with a man, it is because he is a man and I want to treat him as one.
~ Unknown
I think that a fierce woman's better, a woman That breaks away when you have thought her won, For I'd be fed and hungry at one time.
~ W.B. Yeats
The Arrow" I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow, Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow. There's no man may look upon her, no man, As when newly grown to be a woman, Tall and noble but with face and bosom Delicate in colour as apple blossom. This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason I could weep that the old is out of season.
~ W.B. Yeats
And when through all the town there ran The servants of Your enemy, A woman and a man, Unless the Holy Writings lie, Hurried through the smooth and rough And through the fertile and waste, protecting, till the danger past, With human love.
~ W.B. Yeats
He suffers with man as some firm-souled man suffers with the woman he but loves the better because she is extravagant and fickle. His descending power is neither the winding nor the straight line but zigzag, illuminating the passive and active properties, the tree's two sorts of fruit: it is the sudden lightning, for all his acts of power are instantaneous.
~ W.B. Yeats
For the Anniversay of My Death" Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will no longer Find myself in life as in a strange garment Surprised at the earth And the love of one woman And the shamelessness of men As today writing after three days of rain Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease And bowing not knowing to what
~ W.S. Merwin
When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
~ Majel Barrett
I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.
~ Bill Hicks
I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
~ Cathy Freeman
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.
~ Victoria Beckham
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
~ Lord Byron
The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
~ Max Azria
I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.
~ Cat Deeley
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
~ Giles Foden
I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.
~ Garry Shandling
Any woman's death diminishes me.
~ Adrienne Rich