Sometimes. . . we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.
I am a good woman. I know it.
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb. '
I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.
The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise. "
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.
