Woman Quotations | Page 4

Mr Dior had a vision. He knew what taste was, he knew what style was. And he knew what made a woman pretty. And I don't think that's changed from (then) till now.

Most women have had the experience of being in a group of men, saying something absolutely profound, and getting no response at all, only to hear one of the men say the same thing a few minutes later and be immediately acknowledged as brilliant. The woman (who has been made invisible or nonexistent) starts to wonder what she did wrong, or what is wrong with her, and she says little or nothing from that point on (which may be the expected, hoped-for response).

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

Men stand to make more money than women. There's often a perceived competition among women, while the goal for a male cosmetologist is just to make the woman as beautiful as she can be.

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

My inspiration for putting this initiative together came while looking at a postcard picturing a California vintner in a bubble bath enjoying a glass of wine. As I have had dear friends and patients who suffered with this disease, it struck me that a calendar of this kind, including a woman in a bathtub enjoying a glass of champagne, could be a wonderful way to raise money for breast cancer awareness.

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

One particular image of an Edwardian woman captured my imagination, ... The movement of the dress as she promenaded along the seafront provided the inspiration for the historical references and sculptured forms in the design.

One step up from perfume, the handbag is also the most accessible item an ordinary working woman can afford from a very exclusive house. Status bags are a cheap thrill, comparatively speaking, for those who want business class but are living coach.

One must give up a little character, the main source of beauty, at a beauty shop. Character is important because it remains as a woman's youth fades. Conduct, integrity and self-love can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful all the days of her life.

One of my sons - James - just had his computer crash and it's a mess. He's an aerospace engineer. But the church library and cataloguing is all being updated to computers by the woman who is our new librarian, Jani Wagner, so I won't worry.

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

One woman will rent out her RV for a family until they can find something more permanent here, ... Another couple said they will lend their duplex rent free for as long as it takes until they can get their feet on the ground.

One woman was having a violent argument with her boyfriend close to the store. As she turned to walk away from her lover, he pulled out a pistol and shot her.

One woman said it was things like this that made her proud to be a resident of Watertown.

One woman in our support group last night was in tears because she went through all this chemo and her boyfriend of three years broke up with her. He said he couldn't handle having a sick girlfriend.

One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their parents died of AIDS. She tries to persuade them to take food from her hands...and then, as she goes walking into the bush, she sees these shallow graves where children bury children. She takes them back to her home to give them a proper burial...These are AIDS orphans, children raising children with no values, no direction. What will become of them?

One woman did come on to me when I was 19 or 21. I got such a terrible shock because it just came out of left field. That's the only time in my life.

One woman came up to me and said, 'After listening to it, I started to cry,'

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

One was from a woman who said the check helped pay for medical care for her dog.

On 'Law & Order,' the one sending the detectives out is a black woman which also gives you something because a lot of women aren't usually seen in these roles as well.

My daughter has probably gotten some benefit of being inspired by a woman who is willing to take on things. We travel. We travel to exotic places. I'm the first person to jump in the ocean with a whale. Even if I'm scared, I'll do it anyway, because I never wanted her to see fear, especially when she was younger.

My daughter graduated from college in 1985. She had a very close friend who is still paying off credit cards. They're not academic type debts. This woman is in her mid-30s, has a wonderful job and wonderful earnings, but so much of it goes to paying off her credit cards for debts incurred 15 years ago.

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,

My heart just about exploded. I am so proud of her. She is just a wonderful young woman and such an asset.

My eye will roam with equal pleasure over the face of a beautiful woman as it will over the cuts of meat displayed in a butcher's shop window,

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

My fans have grown up with me and seen my life change over the years, from a young girl with 'Goodies' to a full-grown woman and now mom.

No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have; I never had to direct a film I didn't choose and develop. Eleven years ago, I had a heart transplant. I got the heart of a young woman who is in her late 30s. So by that calculation, you may be giving me this award too early, because I think I've got 40 years left, and I intend to use them.

No, I have not. There's only one woman in my life, and I still love her to death.

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Never ask a woman her age or her weight and never ask a snake handler if he's ever been bitten. It's not polite.

Neither one of these two young men ever came into any contact with this woman at all. It's not physically possible that they were even around at the time that this woman says this crime took place.

new shapes and the new fresh woman. We are talking about this woman, and we are looking for this woman for tomorrow.

People want you to satisfy every possible dream or expectation they would have for a woman president, ... We still live at a time when a female president is controversial - even though it seems so bizarre that we've made it to the 21st century excluding half of the potential talent pool.

Poster art is multi-dimensional. It shows the changing style of art and changing style of products. It shows the change in what a woman wears skiing. In one poster, she's skiing in a dress with one pole, and in the next she's in ski pants.

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

No. Absolutely not. We never discussed the personal lives of any woman in those meetings.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

On our last New Zealand ride, I had a woman who rode only 80 miles, and a guy who did over 700 miles on the same trip.

only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

On the give-it-back side ... it was decided that we would establish a figure of about $400, maybe slightly in excess of $400, and that would be given to every man, woman and child, but the cheques would be mailed to the household ... one cheque per household,

On Sept. 6, the woman was hospitalized, the hospital staff took specimen and conducted some examination for the possible of bird flu, the result has not fully met to be said as positive,

One of the first things we did was establish that there was the shot-caller behind the scenes on the conspiracy side. We wanted to make it a woman, because we thought that would be an intriguing image. But, secondarily, we wanted to play against people's assumptions that the woman must be the president's wife or something and never really think that the woman could be the vice president.

One of the most emotional moments for me was when I was talking to a woman in a town that practically did not exist anymore,

One of the monologues describes a 16-year-old girl's experience of rape by an older woman as salvation. In light of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church, it is not only insensitive but offensive for a Catholic institution to perform a play that presents rape as healing for the victims.

I was shocked and angry with the startling suggestion that I should send from my land, my realm, the woman I intended to marry.

I wouldn't have gotten as far I have if it wasn't for Martin Luther King. I am not viewed as just a black woman anymore, but as a working member of my community who has rights.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

If we really do get a president like Mackenzie Allen who is very tough without losing (her sense of) who she is, that's the kind of woman we want.

I got together Grandma's recipes and a very nice Trinidadian woman to cook the food, and we opened up.

I grew up in a small town and once I had a woman come into the dressing room and she screamed at me that I shouldn't be on the ice with her son.

If they don't vote for her, I hope somebody will have the decency to tell them to go stuff it, ... If they won't support a young woman from British Columbia to be prime minister of Canada, I hope they stop talking about western alienation.

If they don't come back, it is not the same school. It's a different Queen of Peace High School. It's the whole leadership. This woman is inspiring. This woman is a wonderful leader. Almost the entire faculty supports her.

I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselves degrade it, will set an edge to all that is good in us. I did not know how the love of a woman will tinge a man's whole life and every action with unselfishness. I did not know how easy it is to be noble when some one else takes it for granted that one will be so; or how wide and interesting life becomes when viewed by four eyes instead of two.

I don't find it extraordinary. I expect every woman who gets behind the wheel to do well, just like men. Nothing has changed, but women are speaking up and saying, 'I want to do this.' I've never thought of it as (a matter of whether) women could do this, but whether they wanted to.

I'd like to talk to her more because she's an interesting woman - and I'd like to tell her how much I enjoy her writing.

I'd like to know how I feel towards her now. I'd really like to have a decent conversation to get to know this woman who has changed the face of musical history in many ways.

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

I don't know what she was running away from, but he convinced her that she was better off staying with him. He certainly coerced this young woman into staying with him, which is exploitation. But I don't believe the young woman realized that she was being exploited.

I don't believe chivalry is dead, but I believe it's on the cusp. Listen, no one is expecting Frank Sinatra on their date. I'd probably laugh if a guy threw his coat on the floor for me, but there's no reason a guy shouldn't have common courtesy and respect for the woman he's interested in.

I don't believe any woman wants an abortion, they just don't see there being an alternative.

I come from a long line (of strong black women) and have been involved with strong black women, so I have to (make) Original Woman a strong character. She could never be the back half of Omega Man. It just couldn't happen.

I can honestly say that in my job day to day, I'm not really aware that there's any difference between male and female crew members. It may be cool to the rest of the world that a woman is the commander of this flight. I think that's great.

I am a woman of peace. When we have wars, it is the women who suffer most, remain as widows and shoulder the burden of bringing up the orphans in a miserable life.

I am aware that Mark recalls I instructed him to have this woman make a contribution to the Carey campaign,

I am going to be a leader and a president who happens to be a woman. But I am glad to be a woman because I think I will bring an extra dimension to the task.

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

I am very proud to claim Mrs. Parks as a resident of Michigan and to help lead the effort to honor her in this way, ... Rosa Parks was a great woman of immense courage and historical importance. I can think of no one else who deserves this honor more.

Cassy Peerson is a young woman who lives in a car on a beach in an unnamed California town and works as a mermaid at a strip club.

But the idea of a man being killed during an episode of love and coming back as a woman started to impress me more and more and more.

But hardly any of us were at all on fire for woman suffrage, wherein the Oxford educational movement differed greatly from the Cambridge movement.

Chinese government always attaches great importance to the growth of woman and child and is endeavoring to resolve the urgent issues that restrict the woman and child development

I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax.

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

Imagine a 75-year-old man and 72-year-old woman watching everything they own go up in smoke.

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

I loved her heart for God and for the kids. She was just an incredible woman that touched everyone's life that surrounded her, parents and kids. Everyone was drawn to her.

I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!

I have a person who works in my organization who once was a woman and now is a man. I didn't know for years that this person had had a sex change. I know what a wonderful person he is, and I based some of my feelings (in the song) on my feelings for him and on knowing what he went through.

I have mixed emotions today. Everybody here lost a great friend, a woman with tremendous character and a great role model, a young lady with a tremendous future.

I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.

I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the model's seat, And I painted her sitting there.

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.