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Woman Quotes (page 51)

It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much... Augusten Burroughs
Willa Cather quote: "Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world"
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world Willa Cather
In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending to a perfection, but horizontal. Time was a great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. All those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality - history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies. - The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle,..."
But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why, pray, must the Argives needs fight the Trojans? What made the son of Atreus gather the host and bring them? Was it not for the sake of Helen? Are the sons of Atreus the only men in the world who love their wives? Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart Homer
Adrienne Rich quote: "A thinking woman sleeps with monstersthat beak which grips..."
A thinking woman sleeps with monstersthat beak which grips her, she becomes. Adrienne Rich
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. Diana Wynne Jones
She would do a mans work when she needed to, but she lived and died without ever putting on a pair of pants. She wore dresses. Being a widow, she wore them black. Being a woman of her time she wore them long. the girls of her day I think must have been like well wrapped gifts to be opened by their husbands on their wedding night, a complete surprise. 'Well! What's this!? Wendell Berry
Margaret Atwood quote: "A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women."
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Margaret Atwood
Virginia Woolf quote: "I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own..."
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married Virginia Woolf
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is somethinglike prayer and can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. Anne Sexton
Lin Yutang quote: "Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother"
Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother Lin Yutang
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through..."
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for... Haruki Murakami
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. W. Somerset Maugham

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