W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women's work is always toward wholeness.”
“Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.”
“Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.”
“Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.”
“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.”
“Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”
Source: Poetry and letters-1807
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”
Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir
“Women, be radiant on your wedding day. But make sure your soul matches your dress.”
“Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.”
Source: the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique
“Women, by nature, want to be dominated.”
“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
“Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.”
“Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.”
“Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.”
“Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.”
“Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.”
Source: Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux
“Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.”
“Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.”
“Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.”
Source: Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models
“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”
“Women, I learned, adapted.
At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.”
“Women, I think we can feel like we need to do it all and be it all. What's important is that we do the best we can, and just make time for yourself because when you do make time for yourself, you give back more as a mother; you give back more to your work.”
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
“Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.”
“Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.”
“Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.”
“Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.”
“Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.”
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”
Source: A question of choice
“Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
“Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.”
“Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.”
“Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.”
“Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.”
Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence
“Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.”
Source: The Rights of Woman
“Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.”
“Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.”
“Women, then, are only children of a larger growth”
“Women, they are mysterious creatures!”
“Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.”
“Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.”
“Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.”
“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”