Quotes About Ordinary Woman

#1. The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

Miep Gies

#4. Can he find it in his heart to love this plain, ordinary woman? Can he love her enough to write a music for her? If he cannot, what is left for him?

J.M. Coetzee

#5. When a man says to a woman, "You are my anima," she should quickly scream and run out of the room. The word anima has neither the greatness of the Woman with Golden Hair nor the greatness of an ordinary woman, who wants to be loved as a woman.

Robert Bly

#6. The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Virginia Woolf

#7. I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

Kate Winslet

#8. She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#9. All nuns, by the very fact of their monastic profession, are exceptional people. No ordinary woman could live such a life. There must inevitably be something, or many things, that are outstanding about a nun.

Jennifer Worth

#10. It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharine Hepburn

#11. She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.

Philippa Gregory

#12. This is not really me. I am not like this. I am like you. I am not a patient from a mental hospital. I am just an ordinary woman whose mind has gone temporarily wrong.

Sally Brampton

#13. Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Hans Fallada

#14. I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.

Kate Lord Brown

#15. A hero is no braver than an ordinary woman, but she is brave five minutes longer. (That's me piggybacking on Emerson.)

Camille Perri

#16. At first he thought she was an ordinary woman. Well, an ordinary dead woman anyways.

Lori Lamothe

#17. One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Pam Farrel

#18. I'm just an ordinary woman who has somehow managed to do some extraordinary things!

Fiona Roberts

#19. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#20. Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

Jennifer Aniston

#22. What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Jody Williams

#23. It simply did not occur to her that she had hurt him as deeply as she had, because she still thought of herself as an ordinary woman, and him as an extraordinary man.

Arundhati Roy

#24. Women are really strange, if you think about it. But this was no ordinary woman. This was a succubus - a life sucking monster.

Justin Villanueva

#25. She gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

Nicole Krauss

#26. An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

Elizabeth George

#27. What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Marilyn Monroe

#28. Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

Bonnie Raitt

#29. But there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt ... I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#30. I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

Jennifer Sky

#31. Chretien speaking to Dominic:
'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.'
'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#32. She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

Khaled Hosseini

#33. It was just an ordinary night. He didn't think anything extraordinary would happen. Until it did. Turning a corner onto the bustling night time street, he saw her all in blue. The woman from his painting was a living, breathing thing ... and she was so completely still.

L. H. Cosway

#34. I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

Michael Chabon

#35. For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Narciso Rodriguez

#36. A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Eleanor Dark

#37. My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

#38. He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while.

Ellen O'Connell

#39. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H.L. Mencken

#40. There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas.

Judith Merkle Riley

#41. The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman

Lisa Barr

#42. It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Melissa Bank

#43. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

Nuala O'Faolain

#44. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Joseph Campbell

#45. The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

William Osler

#46. A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping wedding guests, unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experiences of every average man and woman.

Thomas Hardy

#47. Jane decided he was certainly beautiful, with brown eyes and a well-shaped nose. It is a refreshing thing for an ordinary-looking woman to look at a beautiful man occasionally and Jane gave herself up to contemplation.

Barbara Pym

#48. Monks committed all the same sins that ordinary people did. He had just been shocked by the woman's shamelessness. The sight of her nakedness remained with him, the way the hot heart of a candle flame, stared at for a few moments, would burn on behind closed eyelids.

Ken Follett

#49. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#50. What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

Judith Martin

#51. It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the result of routine or an ordinary coming together. Life should begin in a cataclysm of heat and fury bathed in the sweat of passion and urgency.

Maggie Osborne

#52. The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#53. No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

Theodore Roosevelt