W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.”
“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”
Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest
“Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.”
Source: Poems on Several Occasions: Epistles on several occasions. Tales. Eclogues. Miscellanies. Dione, a pastoral tragedy
“Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.”
“Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.”
“Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.”
“Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son
“Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.”
Source: Socialism: With Preludes on Current Events
“Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.”
Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman
“Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.”
“Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.”
“Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.”
“Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.”
“Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.”
Source: Character
“Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.”
“Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.”
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
“Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth
“Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.”
Source: The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...
“Woman, if i was straight, i would steal you from him so hard.”
“Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.”
Source: Sex & Character
“Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.”
“WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.”
“Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.”
“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.”
“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”
Source: Visual and Other Pleasures
“Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!”
Source: Imogen: And Other Poems
“Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.”
“Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.”
“Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.”
“Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.”
“Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“womanhood doesn’t have to be this twisted competition.
let us cultivate womanhood until it grows into sisterhood.
we'll sprinkle lavender seeds into our old wounds until we're finally healed.
-your sisters are not your enemies”
Source: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“Womanhood is a flourishing flower.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.”
“Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
...Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be.”
Source: Beautiful Girlhood: A Timeless Guide for Christian Adolescense
“WOMANHOOD IS NOT MAKE-UP
Your uterus is your symbol of womanhood.
Your womb is a significant mark of your divinity.
Your monthly menstruation is not just bleeding, but a sign of life.
Your menstruation is a reminder that you can carry creation within you.
No one else has these things except you, woman.
Make-up doesn’t make you a woman.
Clothes don’t make you a woman.
It is the crown on your womb and the power within your uterus that make you a woman.
Your birth canal was created to stretch and deliver life.
It was designed to bring children into this world.
And because you are a divine woman, it returns to its original form and function with grace and ease.
You're a woman because your womanhood cannot be replicated, no matter what.
You're the ultimate bearer of life.
You're chosen to birth both men and women.
The continuation of nature flows through you.
Yours in womanhood,”
“Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.”
“Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”
“Womanhood should be celebrated. Being a woman must not be seen as a weakness.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman