Quotes About Woman

The age-old defense of men, blaming the woman for acting on the desire he had deliberately aroused.

Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It's a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.

The notion that accurate statements made by a woman scientist are first to be regarded as likely outpourings of feminism, and only under the strong pressure of irrefutable demonstration as science is Watson's own contribution.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.

From "Her Kind" I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves: whining, rearranging the disaligned. A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind.

A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind.

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers. The bomb opens like a shoebox. And the child? The child is certainly not yawning. And the woman? The woman is bathing her heart. It has been torn out of her and as a last act she is rinsing it off in the river. This is the death market. America, where are your credentials?

In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.

Au groupe s'est jointe une jeune femme blonde, très grande, mince.

Je soupçonne cela aussi: est-ce qu'on a envie d'être assise sur un banc à gratter comme une écolière quand on a - même refoulée, niée - l'expérience sexuelle d'une femme?

Moi, je suis l'écrivain, la pute, l'étrangère, la femme libre aussi. Je ne suis pas le « bien » qu'on possède et qu'on exhibe, qui console. Je ne sais pas consoler.

Nous avions été unies par une déréliction simplement décalée dans le temps. Et cet après-midi-là, j'avais dû mon courage de vivre à la chanson d'une femme qui, plus tard, se perdrait jusqu'à en mourir.

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.

Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I'd want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.