Quotes About Women

Yet even when they were freed from the practical impediments imposed upon their sex, they could not write because they had no tradition to follow. No sentence had been shaped, by long labor, to express the experience of women.

And again I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.

Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the recalled gestures and mannerisms of the women they've been trained to become and hope for the best.

She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

Mama used to say it was a faerie's kiss." Gideon stepped toward her where she sat on the old wooden chair. He gave a mild shrug. "Something made you and those others born with that mark different from other women. Who's to say it wasn't faeries?

Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

women are the greatest consumers of health-related products and services. Women are often first to take responsibility, not only for the health and well-being of themselves and their offspring, but also for the health of men. This helps explain why single men have the greatest health risks—and why the benefits of marriage are consistently found to be greater for men than for women (who can suffer substantial stress in caring for their spouses) (Courtenay, 2000a).

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women." —MUHAMMAD ALI

Por mucho que te esfuerces no vas a comprender las razones por las que una mujer hace tal o cual cosa. Porque las mujeres siempre tienen razones para hacer las cosas, razones que, aunque nosotros no les concedamos importancia, para ellas sí son importantes. Así que ante la duda, lo mejor es preguntar. Siempre. Y no darlo todo por sentado.

No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at.

He gave her his best smile. He loved women who brought him food. Even when they were plain and unattractive, like this dumpy, pockmarked girl, he loved them.

He has to know what she's saying is too good to be true. Good Lord, if this were the kindest way to break up with a woman, that would be the greatest thing that ever happened to men. Maybe she should write an advice book for men, one that tells them everything they want to hear, as opposed to all those books for women, which tell them to be the opposite of what they are, no matter what that is.

Of course women cared about stature, too, but they learned early to surrender any idea that life was a series of fair exchanges.

Me he pasado la vida soñando con mujeres imaginarias a las que convierto en reales.

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.

But like other well-behaved women they chose to obey God rather than men.