woman quotes

“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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“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”

— Marilyn Monroe

“A woman has the age she deserves. ”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

“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. ”

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Honore de Balzac

“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. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Honore de Balzac

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

“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”

“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. ”

“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ”

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

— Victor Hugo

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