Womans Quotes
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A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.
robert jordan— Two Rivers saying
I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
tony abbott— Panel discussion "Religion, Sex and Politics" on abc.com.au, March 19, 2009.
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— Ch. 15 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
henry van dyke— Lines 9-12.
I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
sarah grimké— Letter 15 (October 20, 1837)
It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
rose wilder lane— Ch. 1 (Old Home Town (1935))
Cassidy was watching Elizabeth with something like awe. This was a side to her that Allison hadn’t seen before. Cassidy seemed to long for this woman’s approval, automatically doing everything a little bigger and better any time Elizabeth’s gaze turned in her direction
lis wiehl— p. 59 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.
aravind adiga— The Fourth Night
Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
lloyd alexander— Chapter 9 (Dwyvach to Eilonwy)
A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
margaret atwood— Chapter 20 (p. 121) (The Handmaid’s Tale (1985))
Petals floating by, Drift through my woman’s hand, As she remembers me.
david brin— Chapter 103 (p. 418)
It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal “yeses” (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal “noes” that the man not be put in jail for choosing the “yes” over the “no.” He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
warren farrell— p. 315. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life -- not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
We are at a unique moment in history -- when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his -- the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.
warren farrell— p. 132. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.
warren farrell— p. 167. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold— Douglas Jerrold's Wit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears.
caroline elizabeth sarah norton— Bingen on the Rhine.
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman’s love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 25 (Phineas Redux (1874))
Shimrod said: “Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.” Melancthe smiled a cool smile. “And now?” “The child seems to have wandered away.”
jack vance— Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 436)
Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
— Henry van Dyke America for Me (1909) Lines 9-12.
(This) subject lies deeper down in woman’s wrongs than any other...I hesitate not to assert that most of (the responsibility for) this crime lies at the door of the male sex.
— Matilda Gage, early feminist, in The Revolution (April 9, 1868).
The correct view as indicated by the evidence is that the woman’s face is ‘ awrah which must be covered. It is the most tempting part of her body, because what people look at most is the face, so the face is the greatest ‘awrah of a woman.
— A fatwa, written by Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid on the Saudi Arabian website Islam QA[ ]
(This) subject lies deeper down in woman’s wrongs than any other...I hesitate not to assert that most of (the responsibility for) this crime lies at the door of the male sex.
— Matilda Gage, early feminist, in The Revolution (April 9, 1868).
