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Thestrongest possiblepiece of advicethat Icouldgiveto any young woman is: Don't screwaround and don't smoke.

—Currie, Edwina

Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

Any woman's death diminishes me. See Donne 281:85.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

Any womanwho understandsthe problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

—Milton,John

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

As a woman I can't go towar, and I refuseto send anyone else.

—Rankin,Jeanette

As to woman's subjection†it is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

—Muir,Willa (Wilhelmina) Johnstone ne¤  e  Anderson also

Une belle femme qui a les qualite¤  s d'un honne"  te homme est ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus de¤  licieux: l'on trouve en elle tout le me¤  rite des deux sexes. A beautiful woman who has the qualities of a gentleman is the most pleasing person in all the world: one finds in her all the merit of both sexes.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

Je voudrais tant e"  tre une femme sans y penser. I would like so much to be a woman without thinking about it.

—Cixous, He¤  le'  ne

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

—O'Keeffe, Georgia

It was better to love a woman than to be a graduate, or a parson; ay, or a pope!

—Hardy,Thomas

And what isbettrethanwisedoom? Womman. And what is bettre than a good womman? Nothyng.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

What is bettre than gold? Jaspre.What is bettre than jaspre? Wisedoom.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

—Gibbons, Stella Dorothea

You're blessed with a woman's brain: vague, slippery, inexact, interested only inthe personal aspect of a thing.

—Lindesay Robertson ne¤  e Richardson

Charm†it's a sort of a bloom on a woman.If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, thanwith a brawling woman in a wide house.

—Bible (Old Testament)

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There'sa broken-heartedwomantendsthegrave of Mad Carew, And theYellow God forever gazes down.

—Hayes,J Milton

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'she said.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on theson of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Amanisseldomashamedoffeeling that hecannot lovea woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

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.

—Dal|¤  , Salvador

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike heröshe was onlyan Object of Contempt.

—Austen,Jane

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but ittakes a veryclever womantomanagea fool.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman.

—Ford,John

That damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirelyand helplesslyat his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us; but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Dear, dead woman, with suchhair, tooöwhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

—Browning, Robert

The death†of a beautifulwomanis, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

Dieu s'est fait homme; Soit! Le diable s'est fait femme. God made himself a man. So be it! The devil made himself a woman.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

'Pray, my dear,'quoth my mother,'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?'ö'Good Gö?'cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,ö'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'

—Sterne, Laurence

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Une femme insensible est celle qui n'a pas encore vu celui qu'elle doit aimer. Adispassionatewomanisonewhohasyettoseetheone she should love.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

A lui la foi, a'   elle le doute, a'   elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

You don't knowa womanuntil you have had a letter from her.

—Leverson, Ada

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

In that sharp light the fields did lie Naked and stone-like; each tree stood Like a tranced woman, bound and stark, Far off the wood With darkness ridged the riven dark. 336

—Freeman,John

Thou'rt one of those That thinks each woman thy fond flexible whore.

—Dekker,Thomas

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

—Walker, Alice Malsenior

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

—Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli

Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

—Plath, Sylvia

Every woman should marryöand no man.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.

—Barr, Alfred Hamilton,Jr

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

—Meredith, George

L'expe¤  rience†d'une femme e¤  crivain est comple'  tement schizophre¤  nique. Il faut toujours faire coupure entre les deux: d'une part, employer un langage qui n'est pas le no" t re†et la lutte qu'on me'  ne sur un autre plan, qui tend 'a casser tout  c° a, a'   essayer de faire a'   travers et dans le langage autre chose. The experience†of the woman writer is completely schizophrenic.One is always torn between two approaches: on the one hand, to use a language that is not ours†and on the other, the battle one fights to break all this up, in order to do something else through and in language.

—Wittig, Monique

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

—Friday, Nancy

Farewell Woman, I intend, Henceforth, every night to sit, With my lewd well natured friend, Drinking, to engender wit.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

A fashionable woman wears clothes; the clothes don't wear her.

—Quant, Mary

O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? Oh why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? See Chesterton 213:99.

—Cornford, Frances ne¤  e Darwin

   There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

—Sterne, Laurence

   A football team is like a beautiful woman.When you do not tell her so, she forgets she is beautiful.

—Wenger, Arse'  ne

For a woman, she has extraordinary talent.One must look for what she does, not what she fails to do.

—Goethe,JohannWolfgang von

For a woman to have a liaison is almost always pardonable, and occasionally, when the lover chosen is sufficiently distinguished, even admirable.

—Graves, Robert von Ranke

I'm furious about the Woman's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

—Loos, Anita

Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.

—Burns, Robert

Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

—Shaw, George Bernard

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicityand long continuance together the rarest thing of all.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

—Pericles

The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.

—Snow, Clyde Collins

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

—Hardy,Thomas

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

—Shaw, George Bernard

A fellow that lives ina windmill hasnot a more whimsical dwelling thantheheartof a manthat islodged inawoman.

—Congreve,William

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.

—Edward VIII

The Duke takes a town in the same light-hearted way as he seduces a woman.

—Pomfret,John

The historical repugnancetowomanhas a rational basis: disgust is reason's proper response to the grossness of procreative nature.

—Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)

   I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

—Emecheta, Buchi

   If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair isgiven her for a covering.

—Bible (NewTestament)

If I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

—Van Druten,JohnWilliam

Why haven't Igot a real'home'öa real lifeöwhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlöI'm a woman. I want things†all this love and joy that fights for outletöand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.

—Beauchamp

Le premier sympto"  me de l'amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c'est la timidite¤  , chez une jeune fille, c'est la hardiesse. The first symptom of true love in a young man istimidity; in a young woman, it is boldness.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

Oh! too convincingödangerously dearö In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

—Rochdale

Practically every man feels that there is in woman†an element of unreason which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely intellectual intercourse.

—Wright, SirAlmroth Edward

Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.

—Book of Common Prayer

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

—Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett

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 and chemistry.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Spare me! You forget nothin'and forgive nothin'. Learn charity, woman. I have gonetiptoe in this house all seven month since she isgone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches around your heart.

—Miller, Arthur

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

—Hepburn, Katharine

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time. Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you. That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Cherchons la femme. Let us look for the woman.

—Duncan

To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.

—Edwards, Otis C(arl),Jr

The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, shehasnothing to do but die; and when shestoopsto be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. See Goldsmith 361:47.

—Austen,Jane

When lovely woman stoops to follyand Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. See Goldsmith 361:47.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?

—Goldsmith, Oliver

   A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetöand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

—Frost, Robert Lee

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

—Nathan, GeorgeJean

I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldöand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.

—Keenan, Brian

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

—Anouilh,Jean

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male istoaccept a womannot merelyas feeling, not merelyas thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

—Plath, Sylvia

:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

I have the head now of myself, and am man enough for a woman.

—Dekker,Thomas

I have been told, both in approval and accusation, that I seemto loveall mycharacters.What Idoinwriting of any character istotry toenter intothemind, heart and skinof a human being who is not myself.Whether this happens to be a man ora woman, old or young, with skin blackor white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.

—Welty, Eudora

A man's boots with a woman in them Clatter across the floor.

—MacCaig, Norman Alexander

Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.

—Book of Common Prayer

A man wants what a woman hasösex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), leaseit over thelong term (marriage inthe United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).

—Dworkin, Andrea

Man was by Nature Woman's cully made: We never are, but by ourselves, betrayed.

—Congreve,William

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

   La femme marie¤  e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

I can't remember a single masculine figure created bya woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

—Kent, Corita known as  'Sister Corita'

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

That is the worst thing about being a middle-class woman†you have more knowledge of yourself and the world: you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make.

—Lurie, Alison

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

—Greer, Germaine

   What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!† Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

—Edgeworth, Maria

Awit should no more be sincerethana woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t'other of beauty.

—Congreve,William

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

—Blake,William

J'ai bien besoin d'avoir cette femme, pour me sauver du ridicule d'en e"  tre amoureux. I need to possess this woman in order to save myself from the absurdity of being in love with her.

—Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Both the cow-woman and the scum-woman are well within range of the comprehension of the Bawling Brotherhood, but the new woman is a little above him, and he never thought of looking up to where she has been sitting apart in silent contemplation all these years.

—Clarke

'Tis no shame for men Of his high birth to love a wench; his honour May privilege more sins. Next to a woman, He loves a running-horse.

—Shirley,James

There is no other purgatory but a woman.

—Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John

A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersöNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

—Austen,Jane

Dessa civiliza c° a‹  o so¤   pode sair quem tem como fun c° a‹  o especial a de sair: a um cientista e¤   dada a licen c° a, a um padre e¤   dada a permissa‹  o. Mas na‹  o a uma mulher que nem sequer tem as garantias de um t|¤tulo. Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist isgiven license, a priest isgiven permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.

—Lispector, Clarice

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

—Farquhar, George

No woman can look as well out of the fashion as in it.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

La courtisane est un mythe. Jamais une femme n'a invente¤   une de¤ b auche. The courtesan is a myth. No woman has ever invented any new sensual pleasure.

—Flaubert, Gustave

No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.

—Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)

   No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Secretaryönot the top jobs. Anyway, I would not want to be Prime Minister; you have to give yourself100 per cent.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

There is no woman who does not dream of being dressed in Paris.

—Anonymous

Wit ismore necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

—Wycherley,William

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

—Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

—de Beauvoir, Simone

The great and almost onlycomfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

—James, Henry

With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head†so exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720

—Iron

Este natural impulso que Dios puso en m|¤†su Majestad sabe por que¤   y para que¤  ; y sabe que le he pedido que apague la luz de mi entendimiento dejando so¤  lo lo que baste para guardar su Ley, pues lo dema¤  s sobra, (seg u¤ n algunos) en una mujer; y aun hay quien dice que dan‹  a. This natural impulse which God has implanted in me†only His Majesty knows whyand wherefore and His Majesty also knows that I have prayed to Him to extinguish the light of my mind, only leaving sufficient to keep His Law, since any more is overmuch, so some say, in a woman, and there are even those who say it is harmful.

—Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la

   O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

—Scott, Sir Walter

The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

—Muir,Willa (Wilhelmina) Johnstone ne¤  e  Anderson also

   Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue¤   mi corazo¤ n  al azar y me lo gano¤   la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.

—Rivera,Jose¤   Eustasio

: I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack?† No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations† I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

—Clare,John

For what's a play without a woman in it?

—Kyd,Thomas

She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal mother†that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

Whenever possible print a woman's age.

—Christiansen, Arthur

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile.Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

—Winfrey, Oprah

Prudence is the other woman in Gordon's life.

—Anonymous

   The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Itrust I will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readerswould be surprised, perhapsshocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. 214

—Chopin, Kate (Katherine) ne¤  e  O'Flaherty

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Ningue¤  m no cais tem um nome so¤  .Todos te"  m tambe¤  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

—Amado,Jorge

The Rev St John Froude put the phone down thoughtfully. The notion that he was sharing the house with a disembodied and recently murdered woman was not one that he had wanted to put to his caller. His reputation for eccentricity was already sufficiently widespread without adding to it.

—Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)

Asthe friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well- meant restrictions on woman.

—Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli

Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

There is something both gratifying and humiliating in watching a man who has taken you for a routinely silly woman begin to take you seriously.

—Byatt, Dame A(ntonia) S(usan) ne¤  e Drabble

Widgongel wif word gespringeth. A roving woman gives rise to gossip.

—Anonymous

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

—Swift,Jonathan

All my house, But now, steamed like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall.

—Jonson, Ben

My most neglected wife, till you are a much respected widow,I find you will scarce be a contented woman, and to say no more than the plain truth, I do endeavour so fairly to do you that last good service.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

'Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice', should be a woman's motto henceforward.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

   Deux me'  tresöou un peu plusöse¤  parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

—Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

—Shaw, George Bernard

I thought of my mother, who would publicly campaign for birth control but would never even think she needed to talk to me, so firmly was she convinced that sex was something no womanöno intelligent womanöwould ever submit to unless she had to.

—Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

Just seehow well shegoverns! She is onlya woman, only the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, byall!

—SixtusV originally Felice Peretti

She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Solitude and melancholy, that is a woman's life.

—Carter, Angela Olive

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!

—Browning, Robert

L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, c'est un e¤  pisode dans celle des hommes. Love is the story of a woman's life, but onlyan episode in the life of a man.

—Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

—Tennyson

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

—Paine,Thomas

Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights öthat immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.

—Johnson, Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

—Addison,Joseph

Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

—Elizabeth I

I would gladly have thrashed her for it.Unfortunately, thrashing your young woman doesn't make her admire you more as a novelist.

—Cooper,William pseudonym of  Harry Summerfield Hoff

She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no useöafther a month or two, th' wondher of a woman wears off.

—OŁ    Bruadair, Da¤ i bh|¤  dh

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks† I was tired of the gender of things.

—Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. SeeAmis14:84.

—Rochdale

Hark! The herald angels sing! Beecham's Pills are just the thing, Two for a woman, one for a child, Peace on earth and mercy mild!

—Beecham, SirThomas

There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Until a woman is free to be as incompetent as the average male then she will never be completely equal.

—Cunningham, Roseanna

Avirtuouswomanisa crowntoher husband: but shethat maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

—Shaw, George Bernard

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

—Waterhouse, Keith Spencer

Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.

—Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

I know that Ihavethe bodyof a weak and feeble woman, but I havetheheart and stomach of a kingöand a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

—Elizabeth I

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

But what is woman?öonly one of Nature's agreeable blunders.

—Cowley, Hannah

Either what womanhaving ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep thehouse, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

—Chekhov, Anton

Quand une femme me para|"t belle, je n'ai rien a'   en dire. Je la vois sourire, tout simplement. Les intellectuels de¤  montent le visage, pour l'expliquer par les morceaux, mais ils ne voient plus le sourire. When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

—Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.When we love a womanwe don't start measuring her limbs.

—Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.

—Synge,John Millington

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A king is always a kingöand a woman always a woman; his authorityand her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Affairs of the world he could treat competently; he had a head for high politics and the management of men; the femininehalfoftheworldwasa confusionandavexation to his intelligence, characterless; and one woman at last appearing decipherable, he fancied it must be owing to her possession of character, a thing prized the more in women because of his latent doubt of its existence.

—Meredith, George

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

—Lerner, AlanJay

They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.

—Hope, A(lec) D(erwent)

   Un homme n'a jamais pu e¤  lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'   lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stagesöfirst an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

—Chekhov, Anton

A woman can hardly ever choose†she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

A woman can look both moral and excitingöif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

—Ferber, Edna

   When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

—Austin, Mary Hunter

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e"  re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.

—Gottfried von Strassburg    fl.c.1200

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

—Laver,James

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

A woman is a foreign land.

—Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

—Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones

A woman is as young as her knee.

—Quant, Mary

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.

—Pope, Alexander

A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.

—Epstein,JuliusJ

Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.

—Tennyson

A woman is like a tea bag; when she is in hot water she just gets stronger.

—Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

'Dealing with a man,'said thenight-watchman,'isas easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, after four or five whiskies, trying to get up a step that ain't there.'

—Jacobs,W(illiam) W(ymark)

La femme est naturelle, c'est-a'  -dire abominable. Woman is natural, that is, abominable.

—Baudelaire, Charles

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives.There isno power game.The man isnot 'taking' and the woman is not 'giving'. No one is attempting to cuckolda husband orhumiliateawife.No oneistrying to proveanythingorget anythingoutofanyone.Thezipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

—Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann

Souvent femme varie, Mal habil qui s'y fie Woman is often fickle, Foolish the man who trusts her.

—Francis I

The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

—Tennyson

A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!

—Nation, CarryAmelia ne¤  e Moore

A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears.

—Makin, Bathsua   b. c.1600

Un homme est plus fide'  le au secret d'autrui qu'au sien propre; une femme au contraire garde mieux son secret que celui d'autrui. A man keeps another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

La femme†sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge¤  e, respecte¤  e, de¤  sire¤  e a'   travers sa toilette. Woman†knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

—de Beauvoir, Simone

Awoman, let her be asgood as shemay, hasgot to put up with the life her husband makes for her.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

—James,William

Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed fromthe one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair.

—Hardy,Thomas

Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

—Farquhar, George

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

—Steinem, Gloria

Ballard admitted he was no hand at giving descriptions; the man was apparentlya gentleman and the womanö well, not exactlya lady, although shehad a very fine flow of language.

—Ridge,W(illiam) Pett

A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.

—Hailsham, Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount

I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.

—Shaw, George Bernard

She's the sort of woman†one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

—Pope, Alexander

With fingers wearyand worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and threadö Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the'Song of the Shirt'.

—Honorius of Autun

And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.

—Bible (Old Testament)

L'homme dit ce qu'il sait, la femme dit ce qui pla|"t. A man says what he knows, a woman says what pleases.

—Rousseau,JeanJacques

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

—Mill,John Stuart

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

—Addison,Joseph

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

—Stein, Gertrude

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

—Gay,John

Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful.

—Sophocles

Ce ge¤  nie particulier de la femme qui comprend l'homme mieux que l'homme ne se comprend. Awoman'sparticular talent istounderstand a manbetter than he understands himself.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

—Irving,Washington

The woman that deliberates is lost.

—Addison,Joseph

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the L, she shall be praised.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

—Webster,John

The only way forawomantoprovideforherselfdecently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Quand une femme frappe dans le coeur d'une autre, elle manque rarement de trouver l'endroit sensible, et la blessure est incurable. When one woman touches another's heart, she rarely has trouble finding the sensitive spot and the wound is incurable.

—Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

—Bohlen, Charles Eustis

The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.

—Wright, SirAlmroth Edward