A Quotes
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“A woman's friendship ever ends in love.”
“A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man”
“A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.”
“A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.”
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.”
Source: Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not
“A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.”
“A woman's hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: See this is what I am like-or this is what I would like to be.”
Source: Talking Through My Hats
“A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“A woman's heart always has a burned mark.”
“a woman's heart has no wrinkles.”
“A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.”
“A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.”
“A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.”
“A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
“A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.”
“A woman's honor rests on manly love.”
Source: Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance
“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”
“A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.”
“A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”
Source: A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
“A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.”
Source: Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition
“A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.”
Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“A woman's long hair symbolizes that she submits to God's plan and to the family leadership of her husband. It is her glory. It is a sign to the angels of her commitment to God and her power with God. It is a covering so that she can pray and prophesy publicly without being ashamed. Similarly, a man's short hair symbolizes that he submits to God's plan and accepts the family leadership position. For both married and unmarried, this symbol indicates obedience to God's will.”
“A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”
Source: The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel
“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
“A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”
Source: Masks
“A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.”
“A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.”
“A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!”
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.”
“A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.”
“A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”
Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“A woman's noblest station is retreat.”
“A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot”
“A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.”
“A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.”
Source: The Lost Wife
“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”
“A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.”
Source: The Poetical Works of
“A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.”
“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”
Source: Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943
“A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson