A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A king is always a king – and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
I like women, but you can’t always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog’s name and then I asked, ‘Does he bite?’ and she said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘So how does he eat?’ Liar!
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
On my first trip to Havana, I was stopped by a woman who turned out to be a Canadian tour guide and who had mistaken me for a woman who had been part of one of her tour groups.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.
I am not a sexy woman, I’m not beautiful, I’m not a sex kitten, I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much: people are curious.
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
I feel like if you’re a girl in the South, you know ‘Gone with the Wind’ better than anything. Scarlett O’Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
If you ask a woman who she is, she’ll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn’t the whole story.
I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar – his life has been a success.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
A woman’s gifts will make room for her.
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
When an attractive woman shows any interest in me, I’m immediately alerted.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
I’m every woman’s dream and every man’s nightmare.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.
The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.
I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man’s position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she’s in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky’s the limit!
A woman can never have enough shoes.
A charming woman is a busy woman.
Woman was God’s second mistake.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors’ appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She’s just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which – if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself – she generally paid the price.
There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn’t act attractive.
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole.
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Enhancing a woman’s silhouette and enhancing a woman’s beauty – both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they’re synonymous, really.
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you’ve always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.
Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
