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Quotes About Woman

May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man a friendship of her kind.
~ William Butler Yeats
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
~ Lillian Smith
I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
~ Goldie Hawn
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
~ Unknown
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers because males have got to try and justify their existence.
~ Orson Welles
There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire.
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.
~ Unknown
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.
~ Lord Byron
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
~ Virginia Woolf
The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
~ Lord Byron
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
~ Robert Southey
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
~ Marlene Dietrich
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions
~ Jules Michelet
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
~ Lord Byron
What would bug a guy from the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
~ Groucho Marx
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
A woman's heart is an ocean full of deep secrets.
~ Titanic
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some men just don't understand that a woman's heart is like a deep ocean of secrets.
~ Unknown
There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love
~ Arthur Wing Pinero