A Quotes
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“A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that you yourself have forged into a bridle to curb your own abilities. To be a good wife is to enslave yourself to a lesser person. To be a good wife is to amputate your own power as surely as the parents of beggars hack off their children's feet for the greater benefit of the family.”
Source: The Other Queen
“A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.”
“A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.”
“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.”
“A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.”
“A woman hath nine lives like a cat.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.”
“A woman holy duty is to respect a man.”
“A woman I didn't recognize tapped my arm. She was elderly, but still stood tall, her dark eyes bright with sadness. She wore a black brocade gown edged with red. She held out a bouquet of red carnations and white narcissus. She stepped forward and placed the flowers on Bartolomeo's headstone, then stepped back and slipped into the crowd so fast I could not see where she went.
I stared down at the flowers. Narcissus was a common spring flower at funerals, but red carnations meant only love, deep abiding love. I had never seen her before. Who was she?”
Source: The Chef's Secret
“A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.”
“A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.”
“A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.”
Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].
“A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.”
“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”
Source: The Fabric of Memory
“A woman in Bower Bank, Jamaica, had eight children. The father was in jail in the United States, no longer sending remittances.
Her fourteen-year-old daughter "get burn up from her face, breast, chest, down to her legs with boiling water February 2 1999. That night just because I never have any money earlier to cook, me go town and get a money, buy something to cook cause them never eat from morning. Me daughter bend down, to pick up something near the stove and bounce off the pot of boiling water pan herself. Me tek her to hospital and me never have the money fe register her. Me beg somebody the money and register her. Me owe the hospital $10,500 for the bill, a caan [can't] pay it. She's to go back for treatment because her hand caan stretch out or go up, but the hospital will not see her if I don't pay the bill.”
Source: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off of his horse. Since Pantea Arteshbod propelled herself to become one of the greatest Persian commanders during the reign of Cyrus the Great. Since Hua Mulan disguised herself as a male to engage in combat and became one of China’s most respected heroines.”
Source: The Desert Warrior
“A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.”
“A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.”
“A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.”
“A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself”
“A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.”
Source: Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“A woman in labor never asks, “Why me?” because she knows both the cause of her suffering and its effect, and that sense of reason and purpose gives her the capacity to endure it.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“a woman in late middle age is the most neutral figure of all, Stella discovered. She poses no sexual threat nor challenge. For young men, she is of so little interest as to be effectively invisible. For women younger than herself, she is a comforting reminder that they have not themselves got that far yet, thanks be. For those around her own age, she is a reassurance: we are not alone. Accordingly all three groups are reasonably well disposed, the defences are down, an overture will be accepted with equanimity and in some quarters enthusiasm.”
Source: Spiderweb
“A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.”
“A woman in love is a great spiritual force.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.”
“A woman in love is helpless.”
“A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.”
“A woman in love never takes advice.”
“A woman in love respects and raises up her man. She is his constant source of support. She matches his heart and passions with her own. She sees the very best in him, even when he does not. She is his foundation; what he returns home to.”
“A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.”
“A woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love.”
“A woman in love with herself is magnetic.”
“A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'”
“A woman in possession of a bomb is in want of a reason to use it."
"Oh god help us, she's been reading old shit again." Kuma said.
"Hanging up now," Naira said. "Tell me if anything blows up that's not supposed to."
She hung up before Cav could get out more than a mangled " but-"
Naira half sensed eyes on her, and half turned to arch a brow at Tarquin.
"Pride and Prejudges?" He grinned sheepishly and brushed the hair off his forehead. "I knew you read nonfiction, but somehow fiction didn't fit in with all the... shooting and bombing.”
Source: The Fractured Dark
“A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.”
Source: ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more
“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.”
“A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.”
“A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.”
“A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.”
“A woman intermittently kissing two men: does this constellation not merely explicate the fact that, while a man cheats his feminine partner with another real woman, a woman can cheat a man even if she makes love only with him, since her pleasure is never fully contained in enjoying him?”
Source: Abercrombie and Fitch "Back to School" 2003 Catalog
“A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women’s Day”
“A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.”
Source: The Poems of James Stephens
“A woman is a cathedral, boys. Worship one at every chance you get.”
Source: Dead Poets Society
“A woman is a creature that's always shopping.”
“A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.”