Quotes About Women

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

Mars is like that uncleaned closet we have neglected for millenniums. Sin has collected there like bric-a-brac. Mars is twice Earth's age and has had double the number of Saturday nights, liquor baths, and eye-poppings at women as naked as white seals. When we open that closet door, things will fall on us.

Mars is opening up. It's a frontier now, like in the old days on Earth, out West, and in Alaska. Men are pouring up here. There's a couple thousand black Irish mechanics and miners and day laborers in First Town who need saving, because there're too many wicked women came with them, and too much ten-century-old Martian wine.

It was said that the Mongols picked up women at one village and dropped them off at the next—having sex along the course of the journey.

Vin isn't…like other women." Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly. "I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.

Women are difficult enough to understand, he thought, and I had to go and pick the oddest one of the lot.

What?" Adolin asked. "You don't get women coming to watch while you spar, bridgeboy? Little darkeyed ladies, missing seven teeth and afraid of bathing . . .

You want to get a palaquin?" Lopen asked. "Those are for women." "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho," Lopen said. "Some of my relatives are women.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

If men and women are going to find their ways back to each other, and back to a relationship where we're allowed to be less than perfect and allowed to be vulnerable and afraid, we have to understand shame.

As I conducted my interviews, I realized that only one thing separated the men and women who felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seemed to be struggling for it. That one thing was the belief in their worthiness.

When we hear stories about shame that don't fit with our experiences, our first reaction is often to distance ourselves from the experiences—"My mother would never say that" or "I don't get women who don't enjoy sex" or "She's so naïve—her husband's a wacko." The distancing turns very quickly into blame, judgment and separation.

There we were, both of us completely engulfed in our shame stories. I was stuck in appearance and body-image fear—the most common shame trigger for women. He was afraid I would think he was weak—the most common shame trigger for men.

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

It has to do with our makeup. Most men, but not all, are realists. Whereas most women are idealists. Most men are practical, sensible

The dress only means something if you want it to. What is important are the people behind it. When it comes to these things that are handed down from generation to generation, each woman leaves her own mark on it, so that it tells ours story, stitch by stitch.

Any church that will not accept that it consists of sinful men and women, and exists for them, implicitly rejects the gospel of grace.

The Wounded Healer deduz que graça e cura são transmitidas por meio da vulnerabilidade de homens e mulheres que foram maltratados e desprezados pela vida. Apenas soldados feridos podem servir ao Amor.

Lauren frowned at Matthias. "We're not dating." It figured that was the part of the conversation she'd focus on. Garrett couldn't imagine what Matthias would do with that information later. "Are you sure?" Matthias asked. Lauren's frown only deepened. "Wouldn't I know?" "Given Garrett's skill with women? Possibly not.

There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.

En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.

Most women are attracted to simple things in life. Like men.

Même le grand Tolstoï, vous savez ce qu'il disait à Gorki? « Quand je serai à mi-corps dans la tombe, je dirai ce que je pense des femmes, et tout de suite je refermerai sur moi la pierre tombale! »