To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.
~By Judy Chicago ~
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I'm just a tough old woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
~By Jenny Weber ~
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
~By Ilka Chase ~
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?
~By Trish Stratus ~
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 ~
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
~By Clark Gable ~
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
~By Billie Jean King ~
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
~By Roger Vadim ~
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
~By Gilda Radner ~
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 ~
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
~By Wild Bill Hickok ~
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 ~
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Life on the planet is born of woman.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
~By Sean Hayes ~
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
~By Artemisia Gentileschi ~
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
~By Lil' Kim ~
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 ~
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
~By Casey Kasum ~
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
~By Anais Nin ~
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~By John Mason Brown ~
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
~By Victor Hugo ~
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
~By Judith Ellen Foster ~
A true woman always loves a real soldier.
~By Belle Boyd ~
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
~By Jane Austen ~
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
~By Josh Billings ~
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
~By Larry Elder ~
What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM.
~By Walter Pidgeon ~
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
~By W. C. Fields ~
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
~By Rachel Dratch ~
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
~By Walt Whitman ~
And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
~By Debi Mazar ~
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
A charming woman is a busy woman.
~By Loretta Young ~
The woman who loves always smells good.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
~By Laura Kightlinger ~
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
~By Casey Stengel ~
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
~By Paul Eluard ~
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
~By Anna Held ~
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
~By Nina Simone ~
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~By Anais Nin ~
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Woman absent is woman dead.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
~By John Lennon ~
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
~By Geena Davis ~
I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
~By Jock Sturges ~
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 ~
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
A woman is as young as her knees.
~By Mary Quant ~
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
~By Lesley Visser ~
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
~By Jill Scott ~
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
~By Studs Terkel ~
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
~By Shakira ~
I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.
~By Ruth Warrick ~
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
~By James Joyce ~
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
~By George S. Kaufman ~
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.
~By Gina Lollobrigida ~
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 ~
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.
~By Joe Davis ~
|