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There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
Sep 10, 2025
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.
Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
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.
Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
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.
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
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.
It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.