Quotes about Woman
He traced her face with one finger again. 'A woman is either a wall or a door, beloved.'' She gave a bleak laugh and looked at him. '' Then I guess i'm a door a thousand mean have walked through.'' ''No. You are a wall, a stone wall, four feet thick and a hundred feet high, I can't get over you all by myself, but I keep trying.
- Francine Rivers
Woman is thy field; go then to thy field and till it.
- Frank Herbert
A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.
- Lysa TerKeurst
In order that Christ's body might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman. In order that His Godhead might be made clear, He was born of a virgin.
- Scott Hahn
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
- John Barrymore
It is a horrible thing to pour out seed besides the intercourse of man and woman. Deliberately avoiding the intercourse, so that the seed drops on the ground, is double horrible. For this means that one quenches the hope of his family, and kills the son, which could be expected, before he is born.
- John Calvin
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
- John Eldredge
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
- Khalil Gibran
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
- Dale Carnegie
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.
- Edith Stein
To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.
- Edith Stein
The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
- Edith Wharton