Quotes About Woman

And virtually every man, woman, and child among them wears that now ubiquitous badge of defiant solidarity, the black-and-white "Where is Lindbergh?" button.

I was suddenly alarmed about leaving this attractive forty-five-year-old woman alone with him, dead though she was.

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.

Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.

What am I to do, what can any woman do, when her husband is such a fool as to desire a woman for a moment, rather than the woman he is pledged to for eternity?

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.

We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.

Getting a woman into power is not the point—it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.

It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks if I have lost my childhood sense of vocation, if I still want to be a nun. Nobody cares what I think at all. They treat me like an ordinary young woman, bred for wedding and bedding, and since they do not ask me what I think, nor observe what I feel, there is nothing that gives them pause at all.

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.

Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.