A Quotes
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“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”
“A woman who writes feels too much.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.”
“A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family--
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy”
Source: Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems
“A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.”
Source: Time regained
“A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.”
“A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.”
“A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.”
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
“A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up”
Source: Burned: Fever Series
“A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.”
“A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.”
“A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.”
“A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.”
“A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.”
“A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.”
“A woman will fall in love with you if you make her laugh. Try tying her down and tickling her. Or, if you really want her to find you hilarious, tell her you believe we can VOTE for FREEDOM.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.”
Source: Aphorisms
“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“A woman will gnaw at your bile
Yet she has two fine seasons:
one, in her bridal bed;
two, when she is dead.”
“A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.”
Source: What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
“A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.”
“a woman will tell you
every home she has ever inhabited
has been broken into
starting with her body”
Source: Zaatar Diva
“A woman will test you to see if you are what you say you are. Any woman that you fall in love with: She loves you too, but she's going to try you; that's her nature. She has to know that she can depend on you; she has to know that you will stand up for her. She has to know that you will back up the children that she brings in the world for us.”
“A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“A woman with a good education was compared to a madman with a sword: she would be a danger to herself and to others.”
Source: Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
“A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.”
“A woman with a mind is fit for any task.”
“A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.”
“A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.”
“A woman with a newborn baby is too starry-eyed to see a wealthy man's cannon fodder or a cheap source of slave labor.”
Source: Behold a Pale Horse
“a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.”
Source: DETECTIVE MYSTERIES Premium Collection: 48 Thriller Novels & Detective Tales in One Volume: That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, The Mill Mystery, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, The Millionaire Baby, The Mayor’s Wife, The House of the Whispering Pines…
“A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.”
Source: Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”
“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.”
Source: Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy
“A woman with an extraordinary oral fixation is a rarity, a blessing, a righteous investment.”
“A woman with an invisible crown over her head wouldn’t agree to settle if a man tries treating her inappropriately.”
Source: Look Stunning!
“A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a woman attractive. We’ve all experienced the presence of someone who walks in and lights up a room. It’s never about their looks but about their energy. Allow yourself to light up the room by being your beautiful self.”
“A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.”
“A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.”
“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
“A woman with nothing to lose is merely dangerous; a woman with everything to protect is a reckoning." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies
"MOST INHERIT WEALTH. SOME INHERIT SECRETS WORTH KILLING FOR." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies
"For some, gazing into the abyss fosters strength, while others are consumed by it." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies”
Maria Monday, Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Power, Deception, and Deadly Secrets”
Source: Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets
“A woman with nothing to lose is merely dangerous; a woman with everything to protect is a reckoning." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies
"Some inherit money. Others inherit secrets worth killing for." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies
"For some, gazing into the abyss fosters strength, while others are consumed by it." Maria Monday, Symphony of Lies”
Source: Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets