W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.”
Source: Character
“Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.”
Source: Woman's Rights
“Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Woman is the lesser man.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Woman is the light of God.”
“Woman is the masterpiece.”
“Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.”
“Woman is the most precious gift known to man.”
“Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“Woman is the root of all evil.”
“Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.”
“Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.”
“Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.”
“Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.”
“Woman is too volatile and spiritual, a being to be kept down by mere brute force," she [Elizabeth Packard] wrote. "You can cage a bird and thus keep her down on a level with her serpent-mate, but just give her the use of her powers, its freedom, and she will rise.”
“Woman is woman's natural ally.”
“WOMAN is Wonder Obstinate, Miracle Awake, and Nature-incarnate.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.”
Source: Collected Works
“Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.”
“Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your black machinations
I was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all
away when she saw the good heart of the man inside
Woman caught standing up; her open parts are broken -”
Source: Feeding The Beasts
“Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your black machinations
I was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all
away when she saw the good heart of the man inside
Woman caught standing up; her open parts are broken -
Someone's armour broke right through, it was you, you
For some reason I've been thinking about you, your light
Today, you poured out all the tension, the ego underground
Hibernating inside my heart. I was so close to it, to the flicker
Of love in a lonely street and I turned my head and walked
Away from the flame in your arms. As I put away the fun in
A house of fight I came across you and a mechanism in
My brain shifted chemically, walls caved in like the cadence
In your words and I was lost in the darkness. Even now in
Middle age I remember when desire was a popular drug
And everyone was selling it but I don't live to explore to be
Able to illuminate the proof of my existence, live to burn
Vicariously though the diamond mouth of sleeping stars.
From so much love, pictures of death arrived in black and
White photographs and you're perfect, you always were -
Illusions have no flaws; they're dangerous beings, smoke.
Could I take the moon back and still live with my great
Expectations of nostalgia, laughter, tears and suffering -
But they are all a part of me not the people of the stars,
Long dead videotape, the past has stained the symphony
Of my soul (like the wind through the trees) throughout
Me finding myself, my two left feet as a female poet
The warning was there of the noise of eternity, signs
That said, don't anger the sea, you have an ally in her.
When men grow cold listen to their stories and bask in
The glory of their genuine deaths, their winters, put
Them away so you can read them like the newspaper.
Once in a while you can go back to where you stood
In youth with your afternoon tea, the sun of God in our
Eyes - I am that kind of woman who lives in the past”
Source: Feeding The Beasts
“Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.”
Source: Australian Nights
“Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.”
“Woman,
may you always
remember your birthright.
For you are salt;
the jewel of the sea,
the maiden
with a thousand
shimmers.”
Source: I Will Be Silent
“Woman means not weakling, but wonder - woman means not obscene, but obelisk - woman means not mate, but martyr - woman means not anger, but action - woman means not naivety, but nerve.”
“Woman means the bone of a man. In the Ga language “Wo” means bone.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Woman must be financially independent to be free in love”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.”
“Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.”
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“Woman must not accept; she must challenge.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”
“Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature”
“Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.”
Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman
“Woman never doubt your worth.”
“Woman of Mother Earth
Oh, what is this I’m feeling, Mother
Earth beneath my feet . . .
Endless roots journey, through fresh
rich soil, grounded and strong.
Forever reaching, forever pulsing
out the beat.
A voice of a thousand mothers
in synchronicity.
Let yourself be seeded in the womb,
belly of heart and soul,
And all that is grown, the richest
gift ever known.
Wisdom of the land, nurtured by hand,
Are the women who give birth, to
the children of the Earth.
Plants and trees and flowers and seeds
Breathe life with energy from
the sun and rain.
As in me, I remain, a woman of the Earth. That is this feeling . . . I am
woman of Mother Earth.”
Source: Direct Hit: A Golf Pro's Remarkable Journey back from Traumatic Brain Injury
“Woman of my dreams, I don’t sleep so I can’t find her”
“Woman of Virtue
She could be as still as a statue
But unapologetically vibrant
Even in her silence
She exudes confidence
Yet so humble
She runs her race with courage
Because she has a clear picture
Of where she is going
She knows who she is
And what she wants
She understands what her worth signifies
Extremely dignified
Many odds she defies
She has influence that no one denies
No matter where she goes, she prospers
She makes life so much better
Never doubts her own power
She whose face shines brighter
Such a paragon of splendour
That recognises God’s favour
Committed to excellence
Crowned with brilliance
Clothed by abundance
Cloaked in resilience
Conquers any turbulence
She is someone I look up to
A woman of virtue”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.”
Source: Torture Garden
“Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.”
“Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”
“Woman's life today is tending more and more toward ... 'Zerrissenheit'--torn to pieces-hood. She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be shattered into a thousand pieces.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“Woman's sacred role is to be a woman.”