Top 32 Quotes About Respectable Woman
#1. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.
Jasmin Darznik
#2. You know that deep down, a tiny part of that proper, respectable woman you are, wants to visit that reckless, sexy, uninhibited place inside you that's begging to get out. A place I can undoubtedly help you find.
K. Bromberg
#3. I'm a thoroughly respectable woman."
"You don't kiss like one.
Ruthie Knox
#4. You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."
"Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
Sacha Guitry
#6. Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune
Kellie Coates Gilbert
#7. The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
Ne-Yo
#8. When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
Honore De Balzac
#9. It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
Karen Essex
#10. Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.
Ken Follett
#11. A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
#12. A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.
Victor Hugo
#14. I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books ... I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#15. I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.
Joanna Russ
#16. I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
Adam Clayton Powell III
#17. The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.
Emily Dickinson
#18. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
Austin O'Malley
#19. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
Stephen King
#20. They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Patricia Christian Punches
#21. Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
Catherine Bell
#24. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.
Jane Austen
#25. And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
Miriam Makeba
#26. The extraordinary deference paid to physicians and their judgment preserved the idea that the woman's desire to end a pregnancy was not enough in itself, it had to be approved by a respectable authority figure, at the time almost always a man.
Katha Pollitt
#27. Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#28. I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.
Rod Stewart
#29. Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
Anna Deavere Smith
#30. It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42
Alaa Al Aswany
#31. Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place.
Virginia Woolf
#32. You're delusional to think that I could ever love someone as damaged as you. Hell, no one could.
Nina D'Angelo
