A Quotes
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“a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“A woman's place is in the wrong.”
Source: Conversations with James Thurber
“A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.”
“A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.”
“A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.”
“A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.”
“A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.”
Source: Poems
“A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.”
Source: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
“A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.”
“A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.”
“A woman's spirit blossoms in the colors of her soul.”
“A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.”
“A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.”
Source: The Journals
“A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.”
Source: Selected writings of Caroline Norton: facsimile reproductions
“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.”
“A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.”
“A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.”
“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.”
“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth
her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”
Source: The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author
“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”
“A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.”
“A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.”
“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.”
“A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.”
“A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.”
“A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.”
“A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.”
“A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.”
Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan
“A womanizer has no better fish to fry if employed as a teacher in a girls’ high school.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A womans mistakes are different from a girls”
“A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.”
“A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.”
Source: A and P
“A woman’s body doesn’t quit just because her heart breaks.”
“A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
“A woman’s heart is not bought by the currency of a man’s emotion for her. A woman’s heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.”
“A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over, and asks, “Was it good for you?” You: a. Say, “God, yes! That was the best seventeen seconds of my life” b. Say, “Sure, as good as it gets for me with a man.” c. Put a Certs in your navel and say, “That’s for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You can have it on your way back up, after the job is finished”
“A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.”
“A woman’s place is in the struggle.”
“A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.”
“A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.”
“A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“A Women can’t change a man because she loves him, where as a man changes himself because he loves her..”
“A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?”
“A women does not become whole, until she has a baby.”
“a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.”