Quotes About Woman

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

And I'm a woman made of sorrow.

A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.

Oh, in all things but this, I know how full of fears a woman is, And faint at need, and shrinking from the light Of battle: but once spoil her of her right In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well, No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell.

Is love so small a pain,do you think, for a woman?

There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one.

Is love so small a pain for a woman?

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating. Alex is hating all the illusions of boyhood - innocence, God, hope. Poor Lady Marchmain has to bear all that. He loved me for a time, quite a short time, as a man loves his own strength; it is simpler for a woman; she has not all these ways of loving. Now Alex is very fond of me and I protect him from his own innocence.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest...

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove

On the contrary. When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

nashi no hana / tsuki ni fumi yomu / onna ari A woman Reading a letter by moonlight Pear blossoms.

Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.

To dream, for example, that I'm simultaneously, separately, severally the man and the woman on a stroll that a man and woman are taking along the river. To see myself – at the same time, in the same way, with equal precision and without overlap, being equally but separately integrated into both things – as a conscious ship in a South Sea and a printed page from an old book. How absurd this seems! But everything is absurd, and dreaming least of all.

To be an illustration seems to me the only ideal worthy of a contemporary woman.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.