Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful.
~By Merle Oberon ~
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
~By Jane Harrison ~
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
~By Garry Shandling ~
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
~By Sophocles ~
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
~By Neil LaBute ~
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
~By Ida Lupino ~
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
~By Jerry Lewis ~
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
~By Ann Wilson ~
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
~By Bill Frist ~
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
~By Edward Gorey ~
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
~By Virgil ~
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
~By Chris Matthews ~
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
~By Gilbert Hernandez ~
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
~By Chris Rock ~
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.
~By William A. Drake ~
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
~By Norma Shearer ~
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
~By Nancy Astor ~
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
~By Christopher Fry ~
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.
~By Perry Como ~
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
~By Charles Eastman ~
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
~By Diana Vreeland ~
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
~By Jenny Weber ~
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
~By Salma Hayek ~
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~By Robert Frost ~
I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
~By John Fogerty ~
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I like a woman with priorities.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
~By Alice Cooper ~
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
~By Ana Castillo ~
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
~By Kristen Bell ~
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
~By John Norman ~
I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
~By Talib Kweli ~
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
~By Mae West ~
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
~By Jane Austen ~
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"
~By Pat Schroeder ~
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
~By Rosalind Russell ~
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
~By Paul Reiser ~
For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
~By Grace Kelly ~
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
~By Leon Kass ~
I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
~By Christian Bale ~
I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
~By Frank O'Connor ~
I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
~By Joan Severance ~
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
~By Hesiod ~
Life on the planet is born of woman.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
~By Emma Goldman ~
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
~By Buchi Emecheta ~
I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
~By Kim Campbell ~
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
~By Luis Palau ~
I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.
~By Barbara Dale ~
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
~By Vanessa Marcil ~
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.
~By Dido Armstrong ~
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.
~By Ronald Colman ~
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
~By Tony Campolo ~
You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
~By Lena Horne ~
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.
~By Richard Masur ~
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
~By Lillian Smith ~
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
~By Ang Lee ~
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
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