Quotes About Woman Who

#1. Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.

Philippa Gregory

#2. Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised

Anonymous

#3. As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.

Rosario Dawson

#5. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

Wallace D. Wattles

#6. I've never had a problem with a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to ask for it."
Even as her heart stuttered, she narrowed her eyes. "Is that supposed to be a come-on?"
He lifted his hands and donned an innocent expression. "Wouldn't think of it.

Julie Ann Walker

#7. His life had been ripped away from him without his being able to fight against it. That was difficult enough, but to know that the one woman that consumed his thoughts day and night, the one woman who captured his attention with a mere smile would never be his ...
It was beyond cruel.

Donna Grant

#8. Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking him if she had not spoken very properly.

George Eliot

#9. You are the kind of woman who makes me believe in God, Ceony," he murmured. "I don't know how else it could be possible to find you. For heaven's sake, you even delivered yourself to my front door." She

Charlie N. Holmberg

#10. I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.

Toni Bentley

#11. Show me a woman who hasn't fantasized about getting in the car and leaving home, and I'll show you a woman who doesn't know how to drive.

Susan Sussman

#12. I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.

Kirk Acevedo

#13. A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

Shirley Conran

#14. I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Mata Hari

#15. I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. Few men are true masters over their women. In truth, I would eye with suspicion any woman who acts as if that is the truth. Either she lies, or she is so dull-witted or weak-spirited that she will make you a tedious wife.

Hannah Howell

#17. Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age.

Roberto Bolano

#18. If you aren't ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward.

Valentine Glass

#19. There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

E.W. Howe

#20. The woman who entered had the plump, matronly figure of the Good Gramma in a children's story and the beady eyes of a dick in a department store.

Stephen King

#21. Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to.

Judith Ivory

#22. Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?

Lauren Willig

#23. It came over me, then, that any woman who ever loves more than one man must carry forever with her, in her heart, a ghost. There is no new thing for her to learn. It has all been done before.

Janice Holt Giles

#24. A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward

Kamryn Adams

#25. For God's sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, 'Look, chaps, I can't vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.' And I don't even bloody know if you still want me to kiss you.

Alexia Adams

#26. A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#27. Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

Lewis Nordan

#28. If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

Linda Sunshine

#29. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

Suzanne Collins

#30. I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#31. You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Ruzwana Bashir

#32. I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

Tate Taylor

#33. People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

Christabel Pankhurst

#34. Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Angelina Grimke

#35. I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.

Rei Kawakubo

#36. A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Adolf Hitler

#37. And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Duke Ellington

#39. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Brenda Jackson

#40. In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Angela Carter

#41. The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#42. What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

Alfred De Musset

#43. Fiqures I had to get paired with a woman who won't bond with me and who keeps trying to get herself killed.
-Ian Fitzgerald

Stephanie Rowe

#44. A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

Virginia Woolf

#45. How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

Han Nolan

#46. They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

Meryl Streep

#47. Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

Nelson Algren

#48. And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

David Marusek

#49. You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Rudyard Kipling

#50. Let them know the real me. All my weaknesses. Yes, I'll make plans to do that. Right on the heels of your announcement that Izzy Goodnight isn't a girl anymore but a twenty-six-year-old woman who likes her nipples pinched.

Tessa Dare

#51. You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

Anais Nin

#52. What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren't my property. You're the woman who changed me in ways I don't even fully understand.

Lisa Renee Jones

#53. Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.

Frances E. Willard

#54. Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

Wilma Mankiller

#55. No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world. And he is the first man, he stumbles on love and he cant shake it,never,ever,ever..

Pia Pera

#56. Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.

D.H. Lawrence

#57. She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.

Tom Perrotta

#58. I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie

John Scalzi

#59. People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Andre Maurois

#60. Let's honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.

Steve Anderson

#61. When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.

Robert Wilson

#62. No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

Martin O'Malley

#63. Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.

James Joyce

#64. Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Oscar Wilde

#65. He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.

Jack London

#66. Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Tori Amos

#67. I was going to make him forget, too. He would forget every woman who came before me, every moment that I wasn't a part of, every dream he had that didn't include me. Starting now.

Emma Nichols

#68. But if I am to speak in earnest, what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character - a woman who knows her own mind." --Captain Frederick Wentworth

Jane Austen

#69. Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.

A.J. Compton

#70. The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Maya Angelou

#71. Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#72. I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

Mayim Bialik

#73. Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?

Frances Power Cobbe

#74. A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.

Betty Ford

#75. It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

Tina Fey

#76. Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

Molly Ivins

#77. You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

Agnes Varda

#78. I see a woman who has a deep curiosity. Who wants to feel but is worried- of herself? Of others? I'm not sure. But I think she has a fire banked within her. Maybe it's only embers now, glowing in the dark, but if tinder were to be put to those embers... oh, what a conflagration that would be.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#79. It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

Kether Donohue

#80. The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Rachel Cusk

#81. I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#82. If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

Caitlin Moran

#83. It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much ...

Augusten Burroughs

#84. The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Michel De Montaigne

#85. After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

Candace Bushnell

#86. The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

J.R. Miller

#87. My mind spins. This last stage of pregnancy has been positively surreal. Acquaintances ask me when I will have my second kid. Doctors prod me toward contraception. How bizarre to question a woman who can't even picture herself with one baby about the logistics (or not) of a second. I

Hope Jahren

#88. The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly.

Sherry Argov

#89. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#90. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

#91. Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

Eleanor Brown

#92. 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

#93. I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself for a long time in the mirror, unable to see who was looking back at me-the girl broken and lost to a man she fell in love with or a woman who learned to survive with a broken heart. Maybe I was a little of both.

Nashoda Rose

#94. I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.

Tasha Smith

#95. A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Russell Lynes

#96. The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#97. For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and a man who is.

G.K. Chesterton

#98. As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

Jessica Simpson

#99. I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

Patti LaBelle

#100. A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it

Courtney Giardina