Quotes About Women

No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you? Yes, I am fond of history. I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.

Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least…

La imaginación de las mujeres hace que concibamos demasiadas ilusiones respecto de los hombres. -Y los hombres procuran que así sea

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Lejos de mí, querida hermana, el despreciar tales placeres. Serán sin duda propios del carácter de casi todas las mujeres. Pero confieso que no me atraen. Prefiero, con mucho, un libro.

As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars. And what are they? A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.

was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

No creo que ninguna de mis hijas vaya a incomodar al señor Willoughby con intentos de atraparlo. No es una ocupación para la que hayan sido criadas. Los hombres están muy a salvo con nosotras, sin importar cuán ricos sean.

by allowance and loving with personal love. This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women; and Mrs. Weston must not speak of it again.

We can all begin freely — a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.

Cuán mortificadas se verían muchas damas si de repente se percataran de lo poco que supone la indumentaria femenina, por costosa que sea, para el corazón del varón [...] Todo lo que consigue la mujer al intentar lucir más elegante es satisfacer su propia vanidad, nunca aumentar la admiración de los hombres ni la buena disposición de otras mujeres.

A história, a história solene e real, não me interessa nada. E a si? - Eu adoro a história. - Como a invejo! Li um pouco de história, por dever; mas nela só encontro motivos de irritação ou de aborrecimento: querelas de papas e de reis, guerras e pestes em cada página, homens que não valem grande coisa, e quase nenhumas mulheres - é muito fastidioso!

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He

I learnt from Mrs. Tickars's young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were.

Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.

Sadly, Mary, from this point on, was not only bound to fail to impress anyone as to her ability as a monarch, she failed so spectacularly that she only reinforced every sixteenth-century stereotype of women as weak-willed, intellectually challenged and emotionally corrupt. Even in the confused aftermath of Darnley's death she seemed to be increasingly in Bothwell's thrall. He was a strong man with a sense of mission when she was feeling at her most bereft and in need of guidance

She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five...she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.