Woman Quotes

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

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

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.