A Quotes
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“A woman is like an ocean, sir, beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
Source: The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales
“A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!”
“A woman is like the colour of the rainbow, very colourful and so beautiful.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.”
“A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.”
“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.”
“A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)
“A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.”
“A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.”
“A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.”
Source: Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
“A woman is more than the sum of her parts.”
“A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.”
“A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.”
“A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!”
“A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate”
“A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.”
Source: The spectator
“A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.”
Source: Priestess of Avalon
“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.”
“A woman is never so drunk with happiness as when she discovers desire in the eyes of a man”
Source: Forbidden Colors
“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.”
“A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
“A woman is not a toy or a plaything. A woman is a friend, companion, and support of a man. A woman is an equal of a man. A woman shows a man what love and care is all about. A woman makes a house into a home. A woman bears children and carries forward the hope of past generation to the future generation. A woman has dreams and hopes of her own. If you consider yourself a man then you must love and support the women you meet in your life, but don't ever try to take advantage of them, or to bring them down.”
“A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.”
“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“A woman is not less a human. There is no piece of literature or institution that can prove otherwise. It does not matter, the skin color, the economic status, or country of origin, a woman is a human.”
Source: I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN
“A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.”
Source: Don't blame the mirror
“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”
“A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.”
Source: The Beauty of a Black Woman: A Collection of Poems & Prayers
“A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.”
“A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.”
Source: V.
“A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.”
“A woman is praying beside me. I would really like to be able to believe like that, I would like to be able to feel something when I pray but I don't. Maybe looking for God is just looking for something to be in awe of, something to tremble before, a standard to uphold. Perhaps religion is a way of punishing oneself, a manifestation of the shame built into the human experience.”
Source: Sugar, Baby
“A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.”
“A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie
“A woman is soft, kind, and loving. When you are in danger, she is always ready to sacrifice herself to save you. So never forget to respect her.”
“A woman is strong until she don't trust”
“A woman is subject matter enough.”
“A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source: The Magazine of history, with notes and queries: Extra number
“A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.”
“A woman is wonderful made.”
“A woman is wonderfully made.”
“A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.”
Source: Bound to Accept
“A woman isn't something to be used for as long as she has flavor, then tossed aside when your taste for her is gone. There's got to be some promise, some agreement that you'll be around."
Marjan's embarrassment had reached combustible levels. "Isn't Father Mahoney waiting for you?" She threw her sister an icy glance. "Don't want to be late for your lesson."
Julian did not seem at all perturbed by Bahar's interrogation. In fact, he seemed to be rather enjoying it. "I couldn't agree with you more. 'The Beloved is all, the Lover just a veil.'"
Bahar shook her head. "It'll take a lot more than poetry to impress. Every schoolkid knows his Rumi."
"Ah, but 'whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.' Isn't that what the old Persians used to say?”
Source: Rosewater and Soda Bread
“A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.”
Source: With Powder on My Nose
“A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?”