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Quotes About Woman

Aparecerá la mujer cuyo nombre ya no significará sólo algo opuesto al hombre, sino algo propio, independiente. Nada que haga pensar en complemento ni en límite, sino tan sólo en vida y en ser: el Humano femenino...
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as strength is a man's charm,so charm is a woman's strength.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montage. "You can't ever have my books," she said.
~ Ray Bradbury
and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty. How
~ Ray Bradbury
On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
~ Ray Bradbury
Tú no estabas allí, tú no la viste —insistió él—. Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada.
~ Ray Bradbury
You weren't there, you didn't see,' he said. 'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.
~ Ray Bradbury
Tu no estabas allí, tú no la viste -insistió él-. Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada.
~ Ray Bradbury
Tiene que haber algo en los libros cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada.
~ Ray Bradbury
But what father ever really believes it? He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in darkness and gets up with child?
~ Ray Bradbury
Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer a una mujer permanecer en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada.
~ Ray Bradbury
It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than vapor floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower.
~ Joseph Conrad
It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than vapour floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.
~ Joseph Conrad
He kept his gaze riveted upon her as a loving man watches the unselfish toil of a delicate woman upon the slender thread of whose existence is hung the whole meaning and joy of the world.
~ Joseph Conrad
Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap—it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right—and
~ Joseph Heller
Jerusalem is a very small town. And Bathsheba was a very loud woman. Maybe even Uriah knew.
~ Joseph Heller
Waller was a sensible girl. She meant to shake off the American officer as soon as she could, and meet with Agent Werewolf and his friends in the woods. Germany was counting on them! Still, it seemed foolish to be afraid -- the American officer was only a woman, after all. What could one woman do to another?
~ Joseph Heywood
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She understood that a woman's work inside the home is not work but sacred privilege and duty.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Tu castigo si eres mujer. Que no te amen lo suficiente.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I'm not bitter for they are telling me I am HISTORY You wouldn't be bitter if you are HISTORY any of you A MAN would not be bitter if entering History! nor should a WOMAN Break my heart, better than break my nose (you bastards) Revenge is SWEET (& I need to acquire that taste)
~ Joyce Carol Oates