Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Marie Anne du Deffand, letter (to Voltaire)
Women are never stonger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Edith Evans, quoted in The Observer
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Sigmund Freud, quoted in Ernest Jones' Sigmund Freud: Life and Work
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Women and Economics
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Rudyard Kipling, “The Female of the Species”
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Circle
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self-indulgence.
H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Women have simple tastes. They can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Ogden Nash, “Frailty, Thy Name Is a Misnomer”
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
Dorothy Parker, “Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals”
Prince, a precept I'd leave for you,
Coined in Eden, existing yet:
Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo—
Women and elephants never forget.
Nancy Reagan, quoted in The Observer
A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed; but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies.
Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Gloria Steinem, attributed
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Stendhal, On Love
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Terence, Eunuchus
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
Sojourner Truth, speech (at Women's Rights Convention, 1851)
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.
Sojourner Truth, quoted in Anita King's Quotations in Black
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
Charlotte Whitton, quoted in Canada Month
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. . . . I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
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Franci1969 2010.03.08. 09:03:22
magyarázat és eredet itt: www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/60500.html
Lobra · http://ross-satyr.blog.hu 2010.03.08. 09:04:38
Pannacsek (törölt) 2010.03.08. 10:12:59
I love to be a woman :)
xoxo P.
semiambidextrous · http://whimsicalll.blog.hu/ 2010.03.09. 09:42:06
:)