A Well Behaved Woman Quotes

#1. A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#2. Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.

Charles J. Shields

#3. I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Claire Tomalin

#4. This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn't hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#5. Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

Francine Prose

#7. I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things.

Gregory Benford