Top 100 Worth Woman Quotes
#1. There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.
Sue Monk Kidd
#2. A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.
Tawni O'Dell
#3. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
Mandy Hale
#4. But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.
Terry Crews
#5. We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#6. News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)
David Brinkley
#7. It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
#8. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#9. Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.
Rich Hall
#10. I know who I am and I am a woman of worth. I can see how God sees me and I am valuable.
Kristen Clark
#11. I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.
Drake
#12. My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman ... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because ... she probably just had too much energy.
Blake Lively
#13. A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
Carol Shields
#14. Be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.
Nikki Rowe
#15. Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly?
Jeremy Irons
#16. As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be.
Charlaine Harris
#17. What woman worthy of the name Mother would stand on a high moral platform about selling her body if her child were dying of hunger and exposure? Not I.
Jennifer Worth
#19. Aren't 3,000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?
Zack Love
#20. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.
Mandy Hale
#21. The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
Jean Paul
#22. It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Amanda Quick
#23. He seemed so certain of everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He couldn't even be sure he was alive because he was living like a dead man.
Albert Camus
#24. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
John Milton
#25. You see, a woman who knows herself and her worth knows that her time is valuable and her heart is precious. She doesn't give either to a man who can't respect the gifts he's being offered.
Kristen Ashley
#27. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M Valente
#28. Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.
Emile Zola
#29. I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.
Greta Garbo
#30. The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.
Shirin Ebadi
#31. My dad once told me that one day I'd meet someone who drives me so crazy I want to strangle her and yet never would because I can't bear for her to be gone. Well, that's when I'll know I've met a woman worth keeping.
Ella Frank
#32. Nothing a woman gives is worth having unless she gives it of her own free will.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. You're a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.
Scott Lynch
#34. He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin.
Carol Emshwiller
#35. I'm a bit down. Liza Minelli and David Gest, I don't know how it didn't work out. How can a man who likes other men and a woman who drinks not get along? The interesting thing is this - there is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minelli.
Jon Stewart
#37. What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?
Laurie Viera Rigler
#38. My gran had always told me that a woman
any woman worth her salt
could do whatever she had to.
Charlaine Harris
#39. Recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much
Margaret Atwood
#40. He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
Adriana Trigiani
#41. Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.
William Walton
#42. Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
William Lamb Melbourne
#43. Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.'
'A maid is still a woman.
Olivia Newport
#44. Any man worth having will wait for his woman to be ready. How can I not return the favor?
Barry Lyga
#45. Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.
Ruth Downie
#46. A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.
Auliq Ice
#47. I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.
Aspen Matis
#48. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
Mandy Hale
#49. Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.
Donna Lynn Hope
#50. When it came to a man's soul, Noah (Wild Card) thought that maybe his uncle (Jordan, Elite Ops commander) was finally realizing that once a man lost his soul to a woman, it was gone forever. And life wasn't much worth living without her.
Lora Leigh
#51. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#52. Sing a song of justice, why don't you, but remember there are many ways of measuring the worth of a man. Or a woman. Not just the poet's way. Not just the scientist's way. But a bit of both, and then some. And all of us have to tread the paths that are most suited to us.
Mitra Phukan
#53. A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#54. Finding the right woman is a lot like ridin' a bull. You'll know in a little over eight seconds whether they're worth a second ride or not. And, as you know, the best ones usually buck you off a few times before givin' you the ride of your life."
-Coleman Cade
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#55. One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.
Oswald Chambers
#56. It's worth all the aches, All the tears, the mistakes . . . The heart of a man and a woman in love? It's worth all the pain in the world.
Colleen Hoover
#58. This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
Jennifer Weiner
#59. But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You're sharp and you've got pluck. Don't waste it.
William Ritter
#60. No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word 'love' in it.
Karen Hawkins
#61. She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called 'settlers', women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#62. Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
#63. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#64. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#65. Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society.
Sonam Kapoor
#66. There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
Florence King
#67. No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. No man worth his salt, not even such a useless fribble as you clearly consider me to be, is going to watch his woman breaking her back over work he should be doing himself.
Karen Robards
#69. Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
Sara Gruen
#70. A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.
Anupama Garg
#71. I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
Berthe Morisot
#72. It's been my experience," observed Emma McChesney, "that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much.
Edna Ferber
#73. People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.
Cindy Sherman
#75. 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
#76. The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
Jane Austen
#77. He'd often ignored his uncle's teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he'd always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of a woman.
Sabrina Jeffries
#78. But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
Dar Williams
#79. Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.
Carolyn Jewel
#80. Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman's heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.
Mandy Hale
#82. I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have ... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.
Monica Lewinsky
#83. Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.
Toni Sorenson
#84. Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
Giacomo Casanova
#85. A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Loretta Lynn
#86. You are willing to risk your career and very probably your life for a woman you knew only three days. What kind of woman is worth that?
The only kind worth having, Major.
Donna Thorland
#87. When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#88. In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
Ani DiFranco
#89. We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
Marianne Williamson
#90. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.
Mandy Hale
#91. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,
Melissa Stanton
#92. So, like Jane Austen, who in all her writing never recorded a conversation between two men alone, because as a woman she could not know what exclusively male conversation would be like, I cannot record much about the men of Poplar, beyond superficial observation.
Jennifer Worth
#93. One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.
Kay Robertson
#94. 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
#95. As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and - if there's any worth in me - marry the only woman in whom I can see both a body and a face, and with whom I need not resign one or the other of my own.
Tim Powers
#96. Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.
Gloria Steinem
#97. But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.
Holly Madison
#98. A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.
John Eldredge
#99. There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.
Adam Bagdasarian
#100. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Idries Shah