W Quotes
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“Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.”
“Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.”
“Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.”
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
Source: The Rumi Collection
“Woman is a symbol of goddism. She is a gift to mankind to accept a soul in her and fulfill the divine’s evolving process on Earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Woman is a temple built over a sewer.”
“Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .”
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
“Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.”
Source: The Ecclesiazusae
“Woman is also the element of conflict.”
“Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.”
“Woman is an incarnation of 'Shakti'- the goddess of power. If she is bestowed with education, Gujarat's strength will double. Let the campaign of 'Kanya Kelavni' be spread in every home. Let the lamp of educating daughters be lit up in every heart. Then only the vision of 'Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat' will be realized.”
“Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.”
“Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.”
Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman
“Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.”
“Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!”
Source: Plautus: with an English translation
“Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.”
“Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.”
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
Source: Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition
“Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.”
Source: Translations from the Russian
“Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.”
“Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.”
Source: Women, Church and State
“Woman is like a russian roulette", i've used to say, "it doesn't matter how many you dodge away or find the ones that would steal your breath and makes you sweat, at the end of the day, the fatal one always finds you. It is simply the law of the Love Gun.”
Source: Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
“Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Woman is made from the bone of a man. Yet all men were conceived in the womb of a woman.”
“Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.”
“Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.”
“Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.”
Source: The Flowers of Evil
“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and cause misery.”
Source: Autobiography of Gnani Purush - A M Patel
“Woman is not like a flower
Woman is not like Moon
Woman is not like stars
Woman is not like ocean or river
She is like you human being with soul, feelings, emotions, choices, decisions, self-respect so respect her in that way”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Woman is not like a flower
Woman is not like Moon
Woman is not like Stars
Woman is not like Ocean or River
She is very much like you,
Human being with soul, feelings, emotions, choices, decisions, self-respect
so respect her in that way”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
“Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.”
“Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.”
Source: Backlog Studies: Y Charles Dudley Warner
“Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.”
Source: Points of View
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
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“Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.”
“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.”
“Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.”
“Woman is the crown of creation - the most intricate, dazzling creature on earth. She has a crucial role to play, a destiny of her own.”
Source: Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.”
“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!”
“Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.”