Woman Quotes

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman"

"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"

Anais Nin, Author

"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot"

John Lennon, Musician

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Like any woman, I worry about my body"

Helena Christensen, Model

"Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose

"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?"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"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"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them"

Ernestine L. Rose

"The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures"

Kate Moss, Model

"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear"

Harold Coffin

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?"

Vida Blue, Athlete

"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"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait"

Diego Rivera, Artist

"You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison"

Bronislaw Malinowski, Scientist

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false"

Nance O'Neil

"There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman"

Carrie Chapman Catt, Activist

"Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that"

John Prescott, Politician

"Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"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"

Charles Eastman, Author

"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"

Casey Kasum

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

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