She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
~By Camille Claudel ~
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
~By Minna Antrim ~
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
~By Guru Nanak ~
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
~By Helmut Newton ~
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
~By Linda Evans ~
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
~By Nelson Algren ~
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
~By Henry James ~
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.
~By Philip Dunne ~
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
~By Rob Lowe ~
Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
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 ~
If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?
~By Kylie Bax ~
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
~By Agnes Varda ~
Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
~By Sally Struthers ~
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
~By Beverly Sills ~
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
~By W. C. Fields ~
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
~By Uri Geller ~
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
~By William Congreve ~
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
~By Leon Blum ~
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
~By Harold Coffin ~
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
~By Francis I ~
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
~By Kate Millett ~
As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
~By Karen Hughes ~
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
~By Helen Rowland ~
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
~By Robert Service ~
I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.
~By Denis Johnson ~
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
~By Alan Jay Lerner ~
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
~By Tony Curtis ~
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
~By Sloan Wilson ~
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
~By Garry Shandling ~
I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
~By Joan Crawford ~
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
~By John Shimkus ~
Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.
~By Dido Armstrong ~
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
~By Nick Lampson ~
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
~By Jane Fonda ~
Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~By Mary Mcleod Bethune ~
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
~By Martin Sheen ~
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
~By Stendhal ~
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
~By Oliver Stone ~
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
~By Frank O'Connor ~
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
~By Felix Adler ~
Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
~By Kristen Bell ~
It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
~By Henri Barbusse ~
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
~By Billie Jean King ~
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
~By Pam Gems ~
The proper study of mankind is woman.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
~By Paris Hilton ~
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
~By Thomas Nelson Page ~
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
~By Thomas More ~
There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.
~By Doris Roberts ~
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
~By Barry Cornwall ~
I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
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