Woman Quotes - page 11

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. (Khaled Hosseini)
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. View quote
Carl Sandburg
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. View quote
Cesare Pavese
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. View quote
Colette
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. View quote
Anaïs Nin
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. View quote
George Washington
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. (Ani DiFranco)
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides,one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. View quote
Robert Browning
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. View quote
Angela Carter
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. View quote
Betty Friedan
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. View quote
Beverly Sills
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. View quote
Erica Jong
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. View quote
Joan Rivers
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. View quote
Margaret Fuller
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. (Frances Burney)
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. View quote
Ben Hecht
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. View quote
Oscar Wilde