Woman Quotes - page 74

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for? (W. E. B. Du Bois)
In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as physical strength, even antecedent morality, are not as important as the inner attitudes, proclivities, character, which after all determine the man or woman. View quote
Harrington Emerson
Here I am quite alone amongst the Oaks and solitudes of Helmingham Park. I have taken quiet possession of the parsonage finding it quite empty. A woman comes up from the farm house (where I eat) and makes the bed; and I am left at liberty to wander where I please during the day. There are abundance of fine trees of all sort; through the place upon the whole affords good objects [rather] than fine scenery, but I can badly judge yet what I may have to shew You. I have made one of two... drawing that may be useful. I shall not come home yet. View quote
John Constable
22 Proposition. The Woman clad with the Sunne (chap. 12) is the true Church of God. View quote
John Napier
Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess. View quote
Christian Dior
I married a daughter of Mr. Isaac Wilkinson, an ironmaster, near Wrexham, in Wales, with whose family I had become acquainted, in consequence of having the youngest son, William, at my school at Nantwich. This proved a very suitable and happy connexion, my wife being a woman of an excellent understanding, much improved by reading, of great fortitude and strength of mind, and of a temper in the highest degree affectionate and generous; feeling strongly for others, and little for herself. Also, greatly excelling in every thing relating to household affairs, she entirely relieved me of all concern of that kind, which allowed me to give all my time to the prosecution of my studies, and the other duties of my station. View quote
Joseph Priestley
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. View quote
Gelett Burgess
"Woman” was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify. Black women, of course, were virtually invisible within the protracted campaign for woman suffrage. As for white working-class women, the suffrage leaders were probably impressed at first by the organizing efforts and militancy of their working-class sisters. But as it turned out, the working women themselves did not enthusiastically embrace the cause of woman suffrage. View quote
Angela Davis
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. (Michele Bachmann)
Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie. I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along. View quote
Ang Lee
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along. View quote
Ang Lee
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. View quote
Ang Lee
I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines-she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. "Funny thing," I used to say, "a man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless... all a woman has to do is put you on hold." View quote
Marlo Thomas
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. View quote
Marlo Thomas
It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. View quote
Marlo Thomas
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove. View quote
Tony Curtis
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heroes of history. View quote
Catherine of Aragon
Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures tried; The saint sustained it, but the woman died. View quote
Alexander Pope
For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. (Alexander Pope)
So unaffected, so compos'd a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so refin'd; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. View quote
Alexander Pope
I found the king extremely attractive, naturally endowed as he was with all the intellectual qualities a woman could wish for in the man close to her heart. His gentle, serious look, which could still be indulgent and warm, and his lovely smile touched me deeply. And there were other details I liked: the way he held his head, his long eyelashes, which I found unutterably romantic, his hands. Yes, I was secretly won over, charmed by him. View quote
Farah Pahlavi
I didn't even know that there was art until I left Texas when I was eighteen. The only painting I knew (and I didn't know it was a 'painting' until much later) was 'Hope' [of George Frederic Watts, 1886] the woman sitting on the globe with... that green [of the painting 'Hope'] you only get in reproductions]! I think that negates the idea of a painter's relation to official – old master art. It was neutral ground – that one picture – I responded to visual things...'Hope' was just sort of visual thing there, not art. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
When I used my real name, all of a sudden there was a lot of commentary. 'Oh, you're a woman' or 'You can't really be a woman' or 'You don't write like a woman.' Or all of a sudden my arguments were not taken as seriously or were judged as hysterical or emotional.... So I got much more interested in why this was happening. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz