As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that’s nice, we’re also human beings.

So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman’s shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God’s allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid

Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life – a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.

Besides, if a guy couldn’t accept the way a woman looked when she woke up, he wasn’t worth waking up next to. Not.

Woman had yet to be identified.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.

The woman factor explains many things of men.

A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who’s wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It’s not as though I’m expecting a reply. I’m fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.

She was the kind of woman who, once she had made up her mind to like somebody, even if it had been an impulsive decision, would invest that person with all sorts of interesting and romantic aspects rather than admit she had been wrong.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, “I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can’t even look her straight in the face.

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

I don’t think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

The biggest strength of a woman is her emotional, mental and spiritual strength.

I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

I’m really proud to be a woman representing country music.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn’t wish to catch. As long as you didn’t associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I’m not like those other ones.

The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress. The vision of the laden barge, the pale island, the flowery meadow returned to her loving spirit along with the Creator’s words: ‘This is my body… Take and eat.

He wanted to possess not the body but the soul of that woman; and to possess her entire soul, with all her tenderness, all her joys, all her fears, all her anguish, all her dreams, in other words, the entire lief of her soul; and to be able to say: I am the life of her life.

And I don’t want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don’t get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that’s still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.

I’ll walk up to a woman, I’ll say the first thing that comes to mind: ‘Hey, you hungry?’

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

You can’t eat hope,? the woman said. You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,? the colonel replied.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I know that I will have a relationship with this woman until the day I die. I have tremendous loyalty to her. She’s the mother of my children. How could I be nasty or vindictive to her?

With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.

I don’t look like a white woman. I look Somali.

Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.

I’m not ashamed to dress “like a woman” because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

She rose to His requirement, dropped the playthings of her life to take the honorable work of woman and of wife.

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

I don’t say it often, but I’m proud of the woman that I turned out to be.

Madwoman, bad woman That’s just what you are

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Capel said, Remember that you’re a woman. All too often I forgot that.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car!

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, “As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn’t afraid of facing challenges.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

I like a woman that’s capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I’ve learned so much. I’m happier than I’ve every been.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she’s confident, she’s sexy.

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

But being a feminist is real simple; it’s that a woman can do things the same as a man. Anything a man can do, I can do. I can finesse, I can hustle. We have the same freedom. I was top of the charts. I’m a woman and I did that. I do feel equal to a man

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

The more money I earn, the more expensive my women become.

A woman will never do again what has been done before.

Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

An ugly woman would ruin me, the disease would be sure to strike in and kill me at the sight of her. I think a pretty physician, with engaging manners, would coax a fellow to live through almost anything.

No, woman, no cry.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player. The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species — it is the tigress and lioness in you — which tends to defend when attacked.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I want to build my empire. In my field, I have always seen men do it. From Diddy to Dr. Dre to Jay Z. Now it’s a woman’s turn.