Woman Quotes (page 131)

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• writing
• reading
• people

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Agatha Christie

• boys
• saying
• men

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Oscar Wilde

• one word
• different
• good

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• beautiful
• believe
• all alone

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light!... Terry Prachett

• distance
• manly
• it is what it is

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? Thomas Hardy

• god
• play
• thankful

The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but... Gene Roddenberry

• love
• manly
• become

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. Emily Dickinson

• time
• prayer
• cat

Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands. 'Which prayer shall we answer today?' they ask one another. 'Let's cast the dice! Hope for this one, despair for that one, and while we're at it, let's destroy the life of that... Margaret Atwood

• fall
• learning
• love

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. Woody Allen

• rebel
• rebels
• rebelling

Every woman is a rebel. Oscar Wilde

• powerful
• school
• power

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. Camille Paglia

• love
• i love you
• you me

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen

• sometimes
• womanly
• survive

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. Stephen King

• humanity
• vision
• wanderer

There was a Being whom my spirit oft. Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft. A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human, Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman.... Percy Bysshe Shelley

• feeling
• lost
• may

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had. Jodi Picoult