In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
I find a pregnant body to be beautiful and an incredible reminder of what a woman’s body is made to do.
I have an idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
I’ve been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature.
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can’t find or afford childcare, or she can’t work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family’s income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren’t beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn’t involve a woman.
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
I realized that, as a woman, you have an obligation to be a feminist.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don’t respect.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
I’ll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, ‘No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don’t work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.’ I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
My mother’s a… beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
I am in love – and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don’t want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.
‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
I think ‘One Woman Army’ sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?
If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.
I’m happy to say I’m a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white – we’re all in it together.
I am a gorgeous woman. That’s not me being egotistical or narcissistic. It’s just a fact, I’m a knockout.
Give me an authentic woman, and I’m happy.
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
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.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
My mom was the strongest woman I know.
I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I’m out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.
I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
