woman quotes

“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”

“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”

 Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

“What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?”

“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes".”

“There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.”

“Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.”

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it”

“A woman has the age she deserves. ”

“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”

“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ”

“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”

“ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”

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

“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. ”

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. ”

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ”

“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.”

“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”

“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. ”