Quotes About Women

After visiting the Krupp factories, the Turkish party spent ten days in Berlin, where Vahdettin told a German journalist that women had begun to work in public in Turkey, and that although progress was slow, 'we are making the effort to give equal rights to our women'.88 Mustafa Kemal was not alone in favouring women's emancipation in the Ottoman state.

Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.

what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth.

Was that faith or arrogance and selfishness? Should I dislike him for wanting us to ride on smooth waters, or should I rock the boat and condemn him for not seeing me as more of an individual? Many of the women I knew did that, some so vigorously that they defeated their own marriages.

He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives, but simply accepted that there were things that women said and did that they would never understand.

Actually, she wanted my help, so she broke all my things. Women are so complicated, you know? Goddesses are no different, it seems.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

Lilit's path was to be prepared by 'sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood.'" "Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

The young sorceress would become attractive because the prestige of her profession demanded it. The result was pseudo-pretty women with the angry and cold eyes of ugly girls. Girls who couldn't forget their ugliness had been covered by the mask of magic only for the prestige of their profession.

because I reckon you were still misled by false appearances not so long ago. what you took for goodness and integrity was rottenness hidden under a pretty mask. you're easy to deceive, witcher, because you don't look into motives. but I don't want to deceive you. so don't look at those women and children. . . don't take the dwarf who's standing in front of you asvvirtuous and noble. before you stands a thief, a robber and possibly even a murderer.

StÃ…â"¢ezte se roz?arování, neb dojmy klamou. Takovými, jakými se zdají být, jsou vÄ›ci jen zÃ…â"¢ídkakdy. A ženy nikdy.

Porque é que estão a olhar assim para mim? As mulheres não precisam de dinheiro. Para que é que elas haviam de precisar? Não bebem, não jogam aos dados, e elas próprias, que diabos, são mulheres.

?wiat b?dzie lepszy, gdy kobiety przejm? w?adz?. Mam nadzieje, ?e daruj? nam krwaw? zemst?.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.

ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design

I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.

If I could see not one single soul in that wilderness of desolation all around me, then the six of us - mounts and riders, both - could boast amongst us not one soul, either, since all the best religions in the world state categorically that not beasts nor women were equipped with the flimsy, insubstantial things when the good Lord opened the gates of Eden and let Eve and her familiars thumble out.

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

Old wives' tales — that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.

I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly

Our sages commanded that one should not teach one's daughter Torah because the minds of most women are incapable of concentrating on learning, and thus, because of their intellectual poverty, they turn the words of Torah into words of nonsense. Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, "Laws of Torah Study," 1:13

An eye for beautiful things," I finished. "Surely there's nothing wrong with appreciating God's glorious creations." "Not as long as those glorious creations are yours to appreciate," Rei countered. "You should be more careful. Some women are like suckerfish. If you catch one, there are sure to be ugly things attached.