Quotes about Woman
little is more precious in an affair for a man than being welcomed into a house he has done nothing to support, or more momentous for the woman than this welcoming, this considered largesse, her house his, his on the strength of his cock alone, his cock and company, the smell and amusement and weight of him — no buying you with mortgage payments, no blackmailing you with shared children, but welcomed simply, into the walls of yourself, an admission dignified by freedom and equality.
- John Updike
The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- John Updike
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Oscar Wilde
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
- Marianne Williamson
A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
- Audrey Hepburn
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
- DH Lawrence
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
- Washington Irving
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
- Virginia Woolf
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
- Bishop TD Jakes
Thus even Christ, though Lord of all things, was yet made of a woman; made under the law; at once free and a servant; at once in the form of God and in the form of a servant.
- Martin Luther
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
- Margaret Fuller