A Quotes
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“A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.”
“A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.”
“A woman doesn't always have a choice, not in a meaningful way. Sometimes there is a debt that must be paid, a comfort that she is obliged to provide, a safe passage that must be secured. Everyone of us has lain down for a reason that was not love.”
Source: An American Marriage
“A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.”
“A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”
“A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.”
“A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.”
“A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.”
“A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.”
“A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.”
“A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.”
“A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.”
Source: Damned
“A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.”
“A woman, Erika S., who lived at Melk in Austria near the site of one of the subcamps of Mauthhausen, gives a frank account of the way she dealt with this physical proximity. She did sometimes see things, unavoidably. She tells of having felt pity in particular for the plight of one Jew she observed, though a pity, it has to be said, that was mixed with something darker, namely amusement at the incongruous gait---'like a circus horse'---forced upon this man by the pain in his bare feet and the whipping of the guards. Her general attitude, however, Erika S. characterizes as follows: 'I am happy when I hear nothing and see nothing of it. As far as I am concerned, they aren't interned. That's it. Over. It does not interest me at all”
Source: The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
“A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”
“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
“A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.”
“A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.”
“A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]”
“A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.”
“A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.”
“A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman
“A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.”
“A woman gambles all of herself, body and future, when she marries. That's more courageous than any risk a bureaucrat takes when it concerns only his face, or his wealth”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.”
“A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.”
“A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.”
“A woman grabbed my arm. "How much for the kid? They won't let me on if I don't have a kid." "He's not for sale," I told her. "Everyone has a price," she said. "But clearly not everyone has a soul," said Poet.”
“A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.”
“A woman had died in the room next to mine, she had died on the other side of the wall I was leaning against, and I had known nothing of it. I had known nothing in the weeks when her husband mourned, nothing when I had nodded to him in greeting with headphones in my ears, or when I had folded clothes in the laundry room while he used the washer. I hadn't known him well enough to routinely ask how Carla was, and I had not noticed not seeing her around. that was the worst of it. I had noticed neither her absence nor the change - there must have been a change - in his spirit. It was not possible, even then, to go knock on his door and embrace him, nor speak with him at length. It would have been false intimacy.”
Source: Open City
“A woman had joined the two men sitting at table three. She was a blonde, one of those fatal blondes, six foot tall or near enough, with hair the color of clover honey.”
Source: The Choking Game
“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.”
“A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“A woman has a way of screaming with her whole body that only other women can hear.”
Source: These Impossible Things
“A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.”
Source: ... and the wife ran away
“A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with."
- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother”
“A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't
feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own,
outside of husband and children.”
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Source: The Yearling
“A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman.
The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war, Vesta the fire, Ceres the grain, Mother Tellus the earth, the Penates of the storehouse. The rivers, the springs. And in the storm cloud and the light is the great power called the father god. But they aren't people. They don't love and hate, they aren't for or against. They accept the worship due them, which augments their power, through which we live.”
Source: Lavinia
“A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.”
“A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.”
“A woman has no control over herself.”
“A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.”
“A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.”
“A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!”
“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.”
“A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”