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Quotes About Woman

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
~ Otto Weininger
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
~ Ouida
The only great actress is a woman whom you utterly forget in the impersonation that she chooses you to see. The actresses we are blessed with are always making us think—how well A looks to-night, how intricate B's coiffure is, how becoming that tawny satin is to C, and how resplendent are D's diamonds!
~ Ouida
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
~ Ovid
Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.
~ Pamela Clare
I am _not_ a woman from your village." His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.
~ Pamela Clare
I— I am no' deservin' of such kindness. I am tainted, do you no' see that?" "All I see, Bethie, is the woman I—" Love. "— care deeply about and wish to protect." The word had come to him so naturally, had slipped onto his tongue as if he'd meant it. And to his astonishment, Nicholas realized he did. He loved her. He was in love with Bethie Stewart.
~ Pamela Clare
When a man looks into a woman's eyes, lass, he doesna want to see the horrors he has kent written there. He wants to see joy and warmth and some measure of innocence. Tis the natural duty and desire of a man to protect his woman and children from the world's bitterness.
~ Pamela Clare
Through the frost-covered glass, he could just make out a woman's face. She rolled down the window. "Jack West?" He found himself looking into a pair of familiar green eyes. Her dark hair was longer than the last time he'd seen her, and there were lines of weariness on her face. Still, he recognized her immediately. "Well, hello, there, SA Killeen. It seems you've run into a little trouble.
~ Pamela Clare
But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
Every woman should have 4 pets in her life. A mink in her closet A jaguar in her garage A tiger in her bed And a jackass who pays for EvErYtHiNg!
~ Paris Hilton
Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I've ever known was brought up on that saying.
~ Pat Barker
A woman is a worthy wight, she serveth a man both day and night, Gil thought, and did not glance at Alys. How did it go on? And yet she hath but care and wo,
~ Unknown
Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.
~ Unknown
But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
The graffiti] had a sort of Christmassy look to it. The green paint tended to be short top to bottom but long front site to side. The red paint was fat and closed up. It sort of looked like garlands with red balls hanging down. There was even "Ho, ho, ho" if you skipped around a little and deleted an "e" on the last "ho". Our green painter had a limited vocabulary and occasionally mixed up a professional working woman with a garden implement.
~ Patricia Briggs
Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling for you and for me. Come home. Come home. All who are weary come home. Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling, O woman, come home.
~ Unknown
How?" Dan asked. "You want to help us find this secret because …?" He wasn't about to be taken in by this woman just because she was pretty and had an awesome accent. Had James Bond taught him nothing?
~ Patrick Carman
For Arthur, there was also a more proximate and personal scandal brewing. On his arm that evening was an elegant, long-limbed young woman. She was almost three decades younger than he was, British, and not his wife.
~ Unknown
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He's not upset because you didn't trust him, or that you tricked Sim. He's upset because you found out what asinine lengths he is willing to go to in order to impress a woman." He looked at me. "Is 'asinine' the right word?" I took a deep breath and let it out. "Pretty much," I admitted. "I chose it because it sounded like ass," Wil said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss