Of Woman Quotes

#1. It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Susan B. Anthony

#2. The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. You're the kind of woman who could easily be a distraction if I let you. If I want to come home alive, I can't let you.

Cat Johnson

#4. She wasn't his kind of woman, and she didn't want to fall in love with a man who would break her heart like a Dorito.

Rachel Gibson

#5. Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.

E. M. Forster

#6. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

John Maus

#8. But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

Cassandra Clare

#9. I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#10. TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

T.S. Joyce

#11. Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

Pearl Cleage

#12. Ah me, how weak a thing
The heart of woman is!

William Shakespeare

#13. She was the kind of woman you might overlook in a dark, crowded bar, but the first one you'd notice when the lights came up. In other words, she was exactly my type.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#14. God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Walter Savage Landor

#15. I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.

Jon Ronson

#16. No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but ... I don't know ... a kind of woman's courage.

George R R Martin

#17. Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 11:11).

Stormie O'martian

#18. My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

Mem Fox

#19. She'll ruin me for all women, I can just tell.
Charlie isn't the kind of woman you move on from. She draws you in with the brightness of her sun and then leaves you blind. There's something deep and dark inside of her. She's trying to keep it locked down, but I can see it in her eyes.

Corinne Michaels

#20. Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#21. It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

#22. After depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is the other.

Victor Hugo

#23. Though the passivity of woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? [...] Do women act thus?

Anais Nin

#24. The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.

Angelina Grimke

#25. There is the type of woman you love for your need and the type you need because of your love. The two are not the same, and only the fortunate manage to find the second. Most of us have to make do with the first.

Helen Hollick

#26. J, I think I know how to fuck my wife. And, believe me, she doesn't like gentle. She's more of a rip-my-clothes-off-with-your-teeth-and-fuck-me-hard-and-dirty kind of woman.

Franca Storm

#27. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

Alice Walker

#28. The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Peter Kreeft

#29. She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

C.S. Lewis

#30. I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Elizabeth Moon

#31. She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day.

Kate Tempest

#32. she was the kind of woman who couldn't live without meaning, powerful and real meaning, in her life.

Sierra Simone

#33. My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

Chris Rock

#34. She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#35. Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Christina Stead

#36. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Caroline Norton

#37. I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

Yoko Ono

#38. She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Emily Dickinson

#39. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer - because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.

Ayn Rand

#40. Possession which cloys man, only increases the affection of woman

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#41. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#42. The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.

Eyden I.

#43. I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

Alice Walker

#44. In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Frederick Douglass

#45. I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn't look like the kind of woman she is.

Sara Sheridan

#46. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

William Blake

#47. I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#48. She wonders how often anger manifests itself as sadness, how it's firmly taught to a certain kinds of woman that it is better, more productive, to cry instead of scream.

Lynn Steger Strong

#49. She was old enough to be stately, yet young enough to be known for her remarkable beauty. In short, she was the type of woman Sarene would normally hate - if she weren't also the kindest, most intelligent woman in the court. After

Brandon Sanderson

#50. My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Maria Shriver

#51. Lukewarm, still air had that smell of woman; like blossom flower, closing before sleeping.

J.M.K. Walkow

#52. Ed said to Madeline, "Why don't you have snacks in your bag? What sort of woman are you?" "This is a clutch!" Madeline

Liane Moriarty

#53. She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger with your life, your car keys, your best-guarded secret.

Amruta Patil

#54. I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

Christian Louboutin

#55. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#56. The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#57. ANTIGONUS If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel and see her no further trust her; For every inch of woman in the world, Ay, every dram of woman's flesh, is false, If she be.

William Shakespeare

#58. how 'man is the extension of woman 'occurred to me is so starnge

Makarand Fulzele

#59. How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Charles Dudley Warner

#60. No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

Olive Schreiner

#61. The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix

#62. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.

Gail Carriger

#63. the God of woman is autonomy

Alice Walker

#64. Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Naomi Wolf

#65. I was the kind of woman who got the guy in the books. But not in real life. Never in real life.

J. Lynn

#66. I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

Tamar Braxton

#67. Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Ellen DuBois

#68. Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Zane Grey

#69. There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

Tina Fey

#70. I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

Gena Rowlands

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

Felix Adler

#72. She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look.

Tyne O'Connell

#73. I met Betty on the street.
"I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."
"None of them are.

Charles Bukowski

#74. If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

Wyndham Lewis

#75. In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.

Victor Hugo

#76. Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility.

Thomas Hardy

#77. I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

Lucy Stone

#78. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Sean O'Casey

#79. What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son?

Gillian Flynn

#80. This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#81. I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.

Edie Campbell

#82. His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.

Thomas Hardy

#83. His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Robert W. Service

#84. For a fraction of a moment she glimpsed the truth. She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power - the natural shape of her body.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#85. Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Simone De Beauvoir

#86. She was the type of woman who caused men to do stupid shit they would later look back on with disbelief.

Scott Hildreth

#87. The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

#88. Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

Camille Paglia

#89. Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine
something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

Margaret Fuller

#90. What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?

Chris Pine

#91. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

Samuel Smiles

#92. The kind of woman who would breeze into the bathroom while I was shaving and say, Yo, shithead - you going to fix that shelf like you said, or do I have to take you back to Husbands-R-Us?

Michael Marshall Smith

#93. Fickle is the heart of woman Treacherous and full of vice;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#94. He might be damn good looking, but that didn't make up for kissing me not long after I caught a man giving him head. It just didn't. That's not the kind of woman I was. Men had to earn my kisses, not steal them.

Rachael Orman

#95. My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Hamish Bowles

#96. The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

Quentin Crisp

#97. I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

Hari Nef

#98. ...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#99. The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#100. Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Marc Jacobs