Woman Quotes

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

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.

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.

I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, 'Hey, fatty!'

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.