Quotes About The Measure Of A Woman

#1. The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover.

Yukio Mishima

#2. Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Virginia Woolf

#3. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.

S.K. Logsdon

#4. You cannot measure a man by his riches but by the quality of the woman holding his hand.

Avra Amar Filion

#5. A man should never measure his wealth in achievements or personal riches, but rather by his love for her. She is more than a woman; she is a queen. She is more than the world; she is your universe.

Chris Flores

#6. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#7. The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

Abdu'l- Baha

#8. The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.

Leif Gregersen

#9. Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

Margaret Way

#10. An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#11. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.

Kiese Laymon

#12. 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

#13. One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Sarojini Naidu

#14. The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

Steve Maraboli

#15. He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge.

Dennis Lehane

#16. The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

Ken Calvert

#17. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.

Boris Pasternak

#18. Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.

Solange Nicole

#19. In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

Julia Ward Howe

#20. If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.

Auliq Ice

#22. Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable.

David Goodis

#23. When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.

Laurence Shames

#24. He snagged two more pieces of wood from her load for good measure. "Martise, bearing children is woman's work. Gurn and I would be sitting in the dark every night if we waited for some wandering female to pick up sticks for us.

Grace Draven

#25. Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Alice Sebold

#26. I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#27. Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#28. ... a woman's loyalty, or devotion, or intelligence isn't measure by the number of cocks that have fucked her, but rather who she is as a person

Al Daltrey

#29. We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth.
I will honor my mother and take care of my family.
Yes, I think. I am just a woman.

Kristen Simmons

#30. who's the fairest of them all?" "Silly question," a voice said. Emily nearly jumped out of her skin. "Fairest is a subjective measure. One man's fairest woman might be another man's ugly cow.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#31. The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

Joelle Carter

#32. A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Franz Grillparzer

#33. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Benjamin Spock

#34. The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith