I Quotes
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“If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.”
“If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.”
“If a woman gives in charity from her house meals without wasting, she will get the reward for her giving”
“If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.”
“If a woman had a right to wear a miniskirt, surely I had the right to choose my headscarf. My choice was a sign of independence of mind. Surely, to choose to wear what I wanted was an assertion of my feminism. I was a feminist, wasn't I?
But I was to learn that choosing to wear the hijab is much easier than choosing to take it off. And that lesson was an important reminder of how truly "free" choice is.”
Source: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”
“If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.”
Source: The Rules of Wolfe
“If a woman has an education and a skill, she has guaranteed divorce insurance for her lifetime … What is divorce insurance? It’s an education, a skill, a profession, an ability to take care of yourself, come what may … The only insurance protection you have is financial independence.”
“IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,
and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,
the man should get a go-between to approach her.”
Source: Kama Sutra
“If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.”
“If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.”
“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.”
“If a woman has to look good to be noticed, then such a society is still living in stone-age.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.”
“If a woman is asking for birth control, it's because she needs it. The request itself is enough.”
Source: Le Chœur des femmes
“If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn't look put on, it's pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that's terribly sexy too - like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.”
“If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.”
“If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.”
“If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.”
“If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.”
“If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated by men. They are inspirational examples of the strength of the female spirit.”
Source: The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
“If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.”
“If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.”
“If a woman is not instructed and educated will she be able to educate, counsel, and guide her children suitably? No. And this is an important matter that should interest women, the home being the first and most necessary of schools. Whatever the child sees the mother do or say is what the child will observe and learn.”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
“If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth”
Source: Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book
“If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.”
“If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.”
Source: Families, Marriages, and Children
“If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.”
“If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.”
“If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.”
“If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face.”
“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”
“If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman goes dancing, she's finding a connection with her own erotic self. It might be about being on a dance floor, feeling free, not having to feel at all responsible for anybody else's well-being. For other people, it might be about going on a hike for four days by herself and reconnecting with nature and strength and endurance and beauty.”
“If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“If a woman laughs when you hurt her, you ought to cry, for you have lost her; if she cries, you may laugh, for you have a worthy soulmate.”
“If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.”
“If a woman loves you, you are seeking you know not what when you desire that she also understand you.”
Source: Aphorisms
“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”
“If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?”
“If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.”
“If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.”
“If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.”
“If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat”
“If a woman receives only cruelty or indifference from her husband, father, brother, or son, why should she trust her well-being to any of them?”
Source: Clytemnestra's Bind
“If a woman's vagina was hell fire, then alot of sex maniacs would prefer to spend their eternity in hell.”
“If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?”
“If a woman says, I love myself; I love my body; I'm comfortable with my life, comfortable with my mistakes, and I deserve a seat at every table and everything should be completely equal, there are guys who lose their minds.”