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Quotes About Woman

We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with light & dark and land & sea and we move through fish & fowl & beasts of the field and we get to Adam and it's still not good enough. And only when Eve was created -- this is our theology [...] -- that is our theology, that the crowning creation and the glory of the human experience came with the creation of Eve.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
This kind of woman also wants this freedom for everyone else; I cannot overstate this important correlation and how necessary it is right now. She craves a genuine world, a more honest and sincere community, relationships based in truth telling, to be refreshing to a parched world. She is not afraid of herself, so she is unafraid of others. She is fierce. She is free. She is full of fire.
~ Jen Hatmaker
So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.
~ Jenifer Glynn
That's why we're not doing it again. That kind of lust gets out of control and you'll end up scorched." Lying to yourself now? It wasn't just Lyssie that would get singed. There was something about this woman that was slipping beneath his skin and stirring the embers of a part of him he'd thought long dead. He shoved that away and firmed his voice. "I'm going to be your friend and protector.
~ Jennifer Apodaca
Ian had thought his brothers fools about that. If they couldn't understand the difference between three overbearing Scotsmen who smelled of smoke and whisky, and a lovely young woman scented with attar of roses, he couldn't help them.
~ Jennifer Ashley
give me your cell phone" "What for?" "So i could admire the fine technology a human woman can afford to buy." He held out his hand. "I want to give you my phone number. What did you think?
~ Jennifer Ashley
Should she pity the woman those eyes finally rested on? Or envy her? Beth's
~ Jennifer Ashley
Love I want you for my mate because you have eyes the color of smoke. Because you are wicked sexy, because you're fearless and have a smart-ass mouth, and because you kiss like fire. Why wouldn't I want a woman like you around me the rest of my life?
~ Jennifer Ashley
Desire so strong it destroyed the ability to resist was a myth. Any woman who fell into bed with a man did it because she made a choice at some point between meeting him and removing her clothes.
~ Jennifer Blake
That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.
~ Jennifer Crusie
He spoke a few works into it, then put his hand on the back of my neck. "Official police business." "Leave da woman," Skip said. "She must pass da state inspection." John's hand tightened briefly on my neck, then let go. He was behind me, so I couldn't see the look he gave Skip. It must have been ugly. Skip put up both his hands. "I'm kidding!
~ Jennifer Echols
That was the last time I saw Carol. I didn't want to be told I had to be a woman. What I wanted from her was the mystery to a solution.
~ Jennifer Finney Boylan
A fetus had no thoughts or memories; it had made nothing, understood nothing. And yet, this mute, unthinking knot of tissue—alive, yes, but unformed, unconscious, incapable of tenderness or reasoning or even laughter—was the life that mattered. The woman carrying it, the complex creature formed by twenty or thirty years of living in the world, was simply the means of production. Her feelings about the matter, her particular ideas and needs and desires, didn't matter at all.
~ Jennifer Haigh
Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?" "Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
This wasn't instinct," the man—Adam—countered. "This was guilt, Ivy." "I'm not debating this with you." "Evidence would suggest you are.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
She started the fire. That was the story the press ran with, without coming right out and saying the words. Three promising young men, one troubled young woman. A party that spun out of control. Everything, engulfed in flames. Kaylie was the one the press blamed
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
~ Eloisa James
All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.
~ Émile Zola
Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.
~ Émile Zola
Est-ce qu'une femme a besoin de savoir jouer et chanter ? Ah ! mon petit, tu es trop bête... Nana a autre chose, parbleu ! et quelque chose qui remplace tout.
~ Émile Zola
Mais dites-vous bien une chose: une femme vous roulera toujours quand elle voudra en prendre la peine.»
~ Émile Zola
La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
an ideal relationship, the balance of power is equal. But if someone has to have more power, that someone needs to be the woman. Her reasoning is that when most men wield the power, they abuse it and succumb to their innately self-serving, self-indulgent instincts. Women who have power, on the other hand, tend to rule in the interest of the family unit rather than their own self-interest. Which is why matriarchal societies are peaceful, harmonious ones.
~ Emily Giffin
except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.
~ Emma Donoghue