“ Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as rega… Bertrand Russell
“ I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show. Kin Hubbard
“ 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. William Shakespeare
“ A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know. Mistinguette
“ I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. W. Somerset Maugham
“ Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing… Joan Biskupic
“ Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men Joss Whedon
“ We come into this world through women: a woman who is spent, broken open, in awe. No wonder women have been worshiped ever since men first saw the crowning of a head, here, legs spread, a brushstroke… Terry Tempest Williams
“ Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness. Toni Sorenson
“ And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Zadie Smith
“ Grandmother trains me when to slip and slide and change, and when to remain inert. She tells me, "It is true, women are the keepers. We are keepers of silverware, the bites of savouries in our broth.… Yasmin Lahda
“ America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I d… Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her chara… Abigail Adams
“ I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became cle… Jeanette Winterson
“ Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul. Leo Tolstoy
“ [Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death o… Marina Picasso
“ An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're from, their names, what they're thinking about at that moment, what they regret… Gustave Flaubert
