A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A woman and a man are like the sheet and the quilt. Since we happen to be the quilts, we need to have clean sheets.”
Source: Award Winning Plays -2
“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”
“A woman and her body is not enough for sex, her pleasure is what makes it lovable.”
“A woman anticipates danger by instinct, rather than inductive reasoning. Due to this, when faced with danger due to passionate feelings related to their basic needs, women are impelled by reasoning, conditioned by instincts acquired from family traditions and the conventions of her social stratum, much more than men are.”
Source: Gamperaliya
“A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.”
“A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.”
“A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."”
“A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.”
“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”
“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath or sleeping, or eating bread - absolute necessities which one never thinks of in terms of appreciation. And we all sat waiting for her to say that she had so little time for reading, before ruling her right out for ever and ever.”
Source: The Brontës Went to Woolworths
“A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.”
“A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"”
Source: The Rosie Project: A Novel
“A woman attracts men by her charm and holds them by their vices.”
Source: Theatre
“A woman bathed in gold came out and took a seat at a piano keyboard. Behind her a second woman, dressed in similar fashion, came to sit nearby with her violin. The pianist’s fingers began to dance across the keyboard, giving it a voice. Her hands were a work of art, speaking a language that predated words.”
Source: Fated to Love You
“A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.”
“A woman become robustious when she decides to demolish her own demon that has been shattered her all this time.”
“A woman becomes unstoppable the moment she realizes she deserves more than almost love.”
“A woman being able to make a man genuinely laugh leaves a much better impression on him than a woman who wants them to feel like she is nothing more than a sex object… believe me, they tend to not be as picky as you might think when it comes to that.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.”
“A woman belongs on the bimah as much as an orange belongs on a seder plate!”
“A woman betrayed is deadlier than a man's terror's; A woman honored is gentler than a man's expectations.”
“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”
“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.”
Source: Small Town Demons
“A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.”
Source: History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States
“A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.”
“A woman by nature is supposed to be picky, because a woman decides the quality of our next generation by virtue of whom she sleeps with. So what we need to do first is promote the idea of women being picky. Second, we have to make sure that the choices they have to choose from are of the highest quality. Women are limiting their choices to benefit the idea of a monogamous society. The goal of polygamy for society is for everyone to seek to be the best they can be. That's what it's about. When you do that, what you find out is that those qualities become desirable, and as a result, become a part of the cycle, the cycle of history, the pact of the society.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Polygyny~Copartnering: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'”
“A woman called Rose has written to me every day for the last 15 years. That's dedication. It's not quite fan mail, but a woman in Frome, Somerset, thought she was married to me. She was so convinced, it actually ended up in court, which was a drag. You can only claim that in a court of law once in your life.”
“A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof.
Bermuda triangulated.”
Source: Diary
“A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.”
“A woman can also be counted among great leaders, because great leadership does not depend on one’s gender.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.”
Source: Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)
“A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.”
“A woman can be in charge!”
“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
“A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.”
“A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.”
“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.”
“A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.”
“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”
“A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.”
Source: My Story
“A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.”
“A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.”
“A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!”
“A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.”
“A woman can do wonderful things.”
“A woman can forget a lot of love in two years--or at any rate she can pack it away, and grow accustomed to it, and hardly remember it more than a business-man might remember an occasion when, by ill-luck, he failed to make an investment which would have made him a millionaire.”
Source: CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King
“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”
“A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.”