A Quotes
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“A woman can hide her frigidity but a man's impotence is obvious”
Source: The Sensualist
“A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.”
“A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.”
“A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.”
Source: Sacrifice: A New Dawn
“A woman can live without it quite well for years at a stretch, but it was nice, when it was the one man.”
“A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.”
“A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.”
“A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.”
Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“A woman can never be undervalued by someone who does not understand her value.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A woman can never own too much makeup!”
“A woman can only stay in love with a man for as long as she continues loving herself when she's with him. As soon as she starts to hate who she has become while in the relationship, she will move heaven and earth to end it. Does she get hurt? Definitely. It doesn't mean that she wants to leave her love for him has faded or diminished. However, just like the most basic rule of human existence, you cannot continue giving what you do not have.”
“A woman can produce what no man can: a child.”
“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”
“A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.”
Source: Hints for Lovers:
“A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.”
“A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.”
“A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.”
“A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.”
“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”
“A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.”
“A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.”
“A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.”
Source: The Prize
“A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!”
Source: Poems
“A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.”
Source: Anne's House of Dreams
“A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.”
Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought
“A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.”
“A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.”
“A woman chela [disciple] once asked the guru [Lahiri Mahasaya] for his photograph. He handed her a print, remarking, "If you deem it a protection, then it is so; otherwise it is only a picture.”
“A woman conceales what shee knowes not.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”
“A woman connected with her Wild Woman is one with the vibrations experienced from the
energy of the earth as it slips between her toes. She spins rainbows with her mind and releases rain with her tears. She dances with the music of the wind in the trees and the rush of the water in a racing river. She howls like the she wolf under the full moon. The magic of her dreams moving forth from her and expanding like the galaxies of a trillion stars.”
Source: When She Wakes, She Will Move Mountains - 5 Steps to Reconnecting With Your Wild Authentic Inner Queen
“A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.”
“A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt”
“A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.”
“A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.”
Source: Limbo
“A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.”
“A woman cries for nothing,
is sad for no apparent reason
and suffers without anyone knowing why.
And all this goes away as it came:
alone and without explanation.
In front of a woman like that,
just approach, make silence
and give her your hand.”
“A woman cries when her man is down and there is nothing she can do to make him stand up. A woman also cries when she has invested her all only to find out you weren't worth the investment. Both are strong feelings that an insensitive man will never know their depths.”
“A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.”
“A woman deserves better than a man who delivers words of logic to a parent, or even to her. She deserves at least a modicum of passion. Such a decision cannot be made wholly on logic. It would be better to remain unwed for all time than to submit to an emotionless union.”
Source: Epiphany with Tea: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
“A woman designs, not only the sex symbol, but she also leads the inspirational journey of the human life and beautifies with its colours all the systems of society.”
“A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.”
“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
“A woman does not apply rationality most of the times. A man is better placed not listening to any woman in his life.”
“A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.”
“A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.”
Source: Weird Tales of Horror: "Stories From The Dead."
“A woman does not get educated to earn a living or secure her future. She may get educated merely because she can and if she loves it.”
Source: Still She Cried
“A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.”
“A woman does not marry with a man for his wealth, unless he is too rich and a man does not marry with a girl for her beauty, unless she is too beautiful.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS