woman quotes

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

H. L. Mencken

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Matthew McConaughey

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Dolly Parton

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

H. L. Mencken

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

George Eliot

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Muhammad Ali

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Elbert Hubbard

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Groucho Marx

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

H. L. Mencken

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Joseph Addison

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

Kendrick Lamar

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

David Bowie

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Elizabeth Kenny

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Groucho Marx

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanakya

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Audrey Hepburn

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Angelina Jolie

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Russell M. Nelson

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Carl Jung

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Audrey Hepburn

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Marilyn Monroe

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Buddha

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Marilyn Monroe

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Marilyn Monroe

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Alice Walker

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Franz Kafka

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Abraham Lincoln