Women famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
-- Abigail Adams -
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
-- Abigail Adams -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-- Abigail Adams -
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-- Abigail Adams -
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
-- Abraham Coles -
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
-- Abraham Cowley -
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
-- Ada Leverson -
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
-- Agatha Christie -
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
-- Agnes de Mille -
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
-- Aime Martin -
You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
-- Aisha Tyler -
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
-- Albert Einstein -
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
-- Aldous Huxley -
The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
-- Alec Waugh -
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
-- Alex Comfort -
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
-- Alexander Pope -
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
-- Alexander Pope -
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
-- Alexander Pope -
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
-- Alexander Pope -
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
-- Alexander Pope -
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
-- Alexander Pope -
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
-- Alexander Pope -
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
-- Alexander Pope -
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
-- Alexander Pope -
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
-- Alice James -
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
-- Alice Kahn -
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
-- Alice Paul -
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
-- Alice Paul -
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
-- Alice Paul -
Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
-- Alice Walker -
What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?
-- Alison Brie -
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
-- Alison Lurie -
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.
-- Amanda Marcotte -
Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
-- Amelia Earhart -
I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.
-- America Ferrera -
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
-- Amy Carmichael -
In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.
-- Amy Dickinson -
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
-- Amy Dickinson -
The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.
-- Amy Dickinson -
There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
-- Amy Dickinson -
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.
-- Amy Dickinson -
People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.
-- Amy Dickinson -
People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
-- Amy Dickinson -
One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.
-- Amy Dickinson -
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.
-- Amy Dickinson -
One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.
-- Amy Dickinson -
One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Not every relationship can be altered to fit.
-- Amy Dickinson -
We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.
-- Amy Dickinson -
[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.
-- Amy Dickinson
