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The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be. - Adrian Dupuy A clever woman has millions of born foes,--all stupid men. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Felix Holt (ch. XLIII) Women see through Claude Lorraines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way. - Thomas Dunn English, Betty Zane For silence and a chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. - Euripides Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. - Euripides Woman is woman's natural ally. - Euripides There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. - Euripides, Melanippe 'Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. - George Farquhar Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase. - George Farquhar Women never truly command till they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet. - George Farquhar Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman. - George Farquhar, Constant Couple (act V, sc. 1) Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. - Dianne Feinstein, on women's role in government, quoted in "Time" magazine Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body? - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters. - Henry Fielding There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. - Eva Figes A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass. - John William Fletcher, Woman Pleased (act II, sc. 1) Displaying page 7 of 23 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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