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Quotes About Women

I saw how dating chipped away tiny pieces of a woman's self-confidence; piece by piece, date by date, she was diminished by some form of unnatural behavior forced on her by social usage.
~ Florence King
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
~ Florence Nightingale
Kui kohtate basseiniserval naist, kes keeldub juukseid märjaks tegemast, et neid mitte sassi ajada, põgenege. Kui sellist, kes mulinal sukeldub, sukelduge järele.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.
~ Françoise de Graffigny
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
~ Frances Hardinge
Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere. 'Invisible,' said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it.
~ Frances Hardinge
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
~ Frances O'Grady
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.
~ Francesca Annis
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
~ Francesca Annis
It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women, anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabetized things, a million forgotten hours.
~ Billy Collins
Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.
~ Billy Graham
I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.
~ Billy Graham
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
~ Billy Sunday
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
~ Billy Sunday
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~ blackie john stuart ii
These women are always the same; they will, and they will not; their Yes so often merely a cowardly sort of a No; and their No, a coy sort of a Yes. One should be a diplomatist to understand them.
~ blackie john stuart ii
Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time.
~ Blake Bailey
One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates's nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency to emphasize their physical defects and/or dubious upbringing on the other.
~ Blake Bailey
And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...
~ Blanche Wiesen Cook
We also had beautiful models--beautiful women who displayed the prizes, demonstrated merchandise, and provided ample grace and beauty to the show. The models were extremely popular with our audience, and along with announcers Johnny Olson, Rod Roddy, and Rich Fields, they became a valuable part of our success.
~ Bob Barker
I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
~ Bob Hoskins
I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.
~ Bob McDonnell
Trzeba by?o poznawa? kobiety nie przez okulary Mickiewiczów, Krasi?skich albo S?owackich, ale ze statystyki, która uczy, ?e ka?dy bia?y anio? jest w dziesi?tej cz??ci prostytutk?.
~ Boles?aw Prus
I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.
~ bombeck erma ii