Women Quotes About Strength & Life – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

David Herbert Lawrence

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Madame de Stael

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Jessica Savitch

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

Phyllis Schlafly

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

George Weinberg

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Sydney Pollack

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Anna Quindlen

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Camille Paglia

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Stendhal

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

Harri Holkeri

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

Sally Ride

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Jessica Savitch

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Jose Bergamin

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

Leland Stanford

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mohandas Gandhi

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

Titus Livius

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

George Jean Nathan

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Jack Kingston

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Tahar Ben Jelloun