Woman On A Pedestal Quotes

#1. Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.

Taylor Mali

#2. I
believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
her dress.

Steve Martin

#3. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Charlize Theron

#4. Just once I knew what life was for.

Anne Sexton

#5. Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Robert Greene

#6. When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.

Jayne Middlemiss

#8. I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes
but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#9. Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Christian Louboutin

#10. We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

Harry Shearer

#11. They never taste who always drink.

Matt Prior

#12. Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#13. And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time
" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

#14. Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

Timothy Morton

#15. No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Honore De Balzac

#16. When, oh when will justice and reason prevail, and Woman descend from the pedestal on which Man has placed her (in order to prevent her from doing anything except standing perfectly still) and take her rightful place beside him?

Elizabeth Peters

#17. I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn."
Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids," he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go." He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

Leslie Caron

#19. I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp ... Then I'd find another one.

Al Pacino