Woman What Quotes

#1. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#2. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

Gillian Flynn

#3. By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Samuel Richardson

#4. In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

Zainab Salbi

#5. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.

Lao Chang

#6. Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Mike Gayle

#7. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Anna Julia Cooper

#8. We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#10. I don't know where you'll find her, or what mindset she'll have, but I know one thing with unwavering certainty - that girl loves you like no woman has ever loved a man in the history of the world. She called you her heart. And I believed her.

Jewel E. Ann

#11. It's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.

Kathryn Lasky

#14. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

Dennis Lehane

#15. He already couldn't remember what it'd been like before her. He'd thought everything was great in his life but then he'd been thrown a curve ball in the form of this gorgeous, passionate woman who he suddenly couldn't get enough of. Which made it official. He was hers, completely.

Jill Shalvis

#16. Yeah, right. I don't believe that one for a minute. What do you think? I fell off a turnip truck? (Simone)
Honestly? All I was thinking about was how beautiful you are. How much I wanted to feel your skin against mine and how I've never been this attracted to a woman before. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.

Maya Banks

#18. If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

Katha Pollitt

#19. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Stephanie Allain

#20. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Lena Dunham

#21. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Kenny Loggins

#22. You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#23. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

Margaret Fuller

#24. A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man

Euripides

#25. But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?

Washington Irving

#26. Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

Iris Apfel

#27. This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer?" A rejoinder is, "What if a young woman who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer dies in childbirth?

Michael Shermer

#28. Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

Samuel Beckett

#29. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Elizabeth Edwards

#30. A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.

Teresa Swift

#31. All to prove to her I'm not lying and I'm not sleeping around on her. She's a vagina with arms, and legs, and two faces. Do you know what it's like to have your penis ridden by a two-hundred thirty pound woman?" He stood now, looking traumatized.

Lucian Bane

#32. You know, I'm allowed to f - king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.

Khloe Kardashian

#33. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation

Ivy Gilbert

#34. Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Joan Caulfield

#35. We make love every single day - no matter what. She is the only woman I've seen that gets more beautiful with age. She is the only woman I see.

Tarryn Fisher

#36. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.

Christina Dodd

#37. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

#38. You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

#39. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.

Gregor Golob

#40. A hundred different scenarios running through my head. How sick does that make me? A broken woman fantasising about how to kill another human being. What has he done to me?

Dawn A. Keane

#41. Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

Jean M. Auel

#42. Many of my friends and colleagues are in the public eye, so they have to pay close attention to what they wear. But every woman needs to stay on her toes in this era of cell-phone cameras and Facebook.

Nina Garcia

#43. Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.

Andrew Davidson

#44. For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

Jenny Eclair

#45. A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Charley Pride

#46. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Sheila Heti

#47. She didn't look like a Willow Queen. Of course, I'm not sure what exactly I expected - maybe something akin to Glinda the Good Witch. But this woman looked like Surfer Girl Barbie.

Richelle Mead

#48. As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better. (341)

Victoria Moran

#49. The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

#50. I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Mary McDonnell

#51. Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Virginia Woolf

#52. A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.

Carole Bouquet

#53. Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

Tom DeLonge

#54. What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

Nathan Fillion

#55. Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

George Bernard Shaw

#56. Abby did a little happy dance before jogging down the hall to the bedroom. The corners of my mouth turned up. What other woman would be that excited to see her boyfriend trade punches? No wonder I fell in love with her.

Jamie McGuire

#57. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Bai Ling

#58. It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer

#59. Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.

Armand Nassery

#60. This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Pope Francis

#61. Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

Donna Tartt

#62. I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

Phyllis Logan

#63. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.

J.D. Jordan

#64. I liked to think I was a smart woman. My vagina, on the other hand, was the equivalent of a dumb blonde. And that blonde wanted what she wanted.

L. H. Cosway

#65. When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

William Feather

#66. I laughed. "What the hell are you learning from Ebony?" "How to be a strong black woman?" I

Adrianne Brooks

#67. A cheater will cheat, no matter how wonderful his woman is. Some guys are scum. Cheaters cheat, no matter what." I

Kelley Harvey

#68. There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

Mitchell Baker

#69. What exactly do you say to a woman after you blow up and tell her you want to fuck her in the ass? I'm pretty sure that this is the moment you just cut your losses and move on.

Aly Martinez

#70. No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Andrea Dworkin

#71. Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Jeanette Winterson

#72. Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

Rob Reiner

#73. What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?

Julie Orringer

#74. What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

Angelina Grimke

#75. I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jenny Agutter

#76. You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.

Isabel Vincent

#77. ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing.

Laurence Sterne

#78. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Cormac McCarthy

#79. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#80. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do.

Yvonne Montgomery

#81. I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

Eddie Izzard

#82. She was truly beautiful, though that was not what drew him to want to know more about her. This woman of wealth and privilege had something else about her - and inner beauty - which he couldn't quite define.

Kathleen Y'Barbo

#83. I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work that combats violence. What in the world could be the point of that? The only reason I've come up with, and I think it makes sense, is fear of becoming that "impure" woman.

Jessica Valenti

#84. She understood from it all what a woman, if she loves sincerely, always understands before anything else
namely, that I myself was unhappy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#85. I don't know what it is about the woman, but she drives me crazy, in body and mind. It's like my soul recognizes her as it's other half and it's fighting desperately to get to her.

Alex Grayson

#86. What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Terry Wogan

#87. In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Honore De Balzac

#88. Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

Bonnie St. John

#89. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

#90. For the woman you love, you should be willing to pick up and go anywhere. You aren't defined by your job, son, but by what you make of your life.'

If only any of it were that simple.

Kim Law

#91. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

William Hazlitt

#92. Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

Rita Rudner

#93. Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'

The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.

A. Ashley Straker

#94. The woman had an interesting set of features on her. Like she wasn't quite sure what beautiful was supposed to look like. Her

Noah Barnett

#95. What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Ashlee Simpson

#96. Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

Maureen Murdock

#97. You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.

Mary McCarthy

#98. I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#99. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

George Eliot

#100. I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.

Letitia Baldrige