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She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,'Tis woman's whole existence.
— George Gordon Byron
A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.
— James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
When a woman is interested in you, she’ll let you know; if not, there’s no aftershave, gift, or line you can spin to make her change her mind.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he was faithful to just one woman. - At the Sound of the Last Post
— Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
I’ve always thought that the reason the devil approached Eve and not Adam is because the devil Recognized the power, courage, and the tenacity of a woman, the world would have you believe that Eve was a weaker sex and that is why the devil approached her, But think about it, a weak person would never disobey let alone desire to be God.
— Micheline Jean Louis
One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.
— John Mark Green
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
— Coco Chanel
Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh
— Baris Gencel
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
Or the woman in front of me in the security line who asked if they would put her cat, Dave, through the luggage X-ray machine because she wanted to see if he'd eaten a necklace.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful.
— Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough
It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
A woman is not a touch but a response to it
— Pratibha Ray
The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!
— Autumn Morning Star
It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.
— Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.
— Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
Love is neither a sadist nor a masochist, but a woman seeking the approval of her lover.
— Billy S VanOrsdol
I'm a woman, Aleksey. I'm not the simplistic, flawless creature the world expects me to be. I'm imperfect, I'm multidimensional. I make mistakes all the time and I'll make even more as life challenges me. And I don't want to be afraid of messing things up. Firstly because I'll learn from my mistakes, but more importantly, they're what make me human.
— Mya Robarts, The V Girl
No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.
— Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
He sounded pathetic and he knew it, but he had been driven to this humiliation by love. A woman can do that. They have power. We might all say that the oath to our lord is the strong oath that guides our lives, the oath that binds us and rules all the other oaths, but few men would not abandon every oath under the sun for a woman. I have broken oaths. I am not proud of that, but almost every oath I broke was for a woman.
— Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm
Woman must be financially independent to be free in love
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Pity womankind, but never a woman.
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
— Rabih Alameddine
A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire village to action. Pg.38
— Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, AMENDE: The Stream Water
Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress,Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it.
— Tina J. Richardson
My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me?
— Tina J. Richardson
A woman's assets are her infectious smile and bulletproof love.
— Debasish Mridha
I am not a one in a million kind of girl. I am once in a lifetime kind of woman.
— Pravinee Hurbungs
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
— Leo Tolstoy
No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.
— Maj Sjöwall
Every Woman is Special and Unique
— Jan Jansen
Jasper!” Casey shouts, startling the young woman. “My cargo is talking to me!
— Nathan Reese Maher
She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. “He—he did that to me on purpose! He’s insane. Literally, insane!”The munchkin just shrugs. “Welcome aboard!” and returns unconcerned to his work.
— Nathan Reese Maher, Rubberband Lazer - Or, the Adventures of Casey Norider and Jaq Synergy
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling...
— Ernest Hemingway
He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so infinitely remote, that, while it was addressed to their ears, it knew them not, he would regret, almost, that it had a meaning of its own, an intrinsic and unalterable beauty, foreign to themselves, just as in the jewels given to us, or even in the letters written to us by a woman with whom we are in love, we find fault with the 'water' of a stone, or with the words of a sentence because they are not fashioned exclusively from the spirit of a fleeting intimacy and of a 'lass unaparalleled.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
— Oscar Wilde
The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)
— Charles de Leusse
Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.
— Sunday Adelaja
No woman deserves to be disrespected; to be beaten up, to be called bitches or sluts. Assaulted or insulted. Even if she's a hooker.
— Imam Shah
The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind.
— Nikki Rowe
Keep your expectations high, Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.
— Nikki Rowe
Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)
— Charles de Leusse
...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...
— Joe Hill
Unconsciously, I had doubts about everything around me, and all I had to do is to act selfish, and to walk through everything like a wise lady. So I attracted their eyes and I haunted their thoughts.
— Sara Keddar
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?
— Mary Norris, Between You  Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.
— Ayisha Tabbassum
...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.
— Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina
Every woman should be treated like a queen, worshipped like a goddess, love like there's no tomorrow, and complimented at least 5 times a day.
— Kristov Burgh
Word Powers:A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
She is a woman who deserves some respect. She's the one who'll bear the belligerent burden of birthing your kids. She's a woman, not an ass, or a breast or something else that could be sexually caressed. Appreciate the woman that she is because she and your mother are one in the same. She will be a wife someday; should't she get treated like more of a gain?
— Jasmine Sandozz, Thoughts of a Burning Heart
I knew such a woman once,She gave me everything.Her love like a soft riot singing,She knew how to shine.
— Scott Hastie
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
— Shannon L. Alder
The greatest gift to man is woman, But the greatest gift to woman is herself.
— C.C. Campbell, The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion
The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and a smoky, serious husband and perhaps a pair or silent, serious daughters, and the flowers were an act of resistance against the raw, bare lot with its raw house sticking up from the raw earth like an act of sheer, inevitable, necessary madness because human beings have to live somewhere and in something and here is just as outrageous as there because in either place (in any place) it seems like an interruption, an intrusion on something that, no matter how many times she read in her Bible, Let them have dominion, seemed marred, dispelled, vanquished once people arrived with their catastrophic voices and saws and plows and began to sing and hammer and carve and erect. So the flowers were maybe a balm or, if not a balm, some sort of gesture signifying the balm she would apply were it in her power to offer redress.
— Paul Harding
A woman is always beutiful to the one who has fallen in love with her, nothing can dampen her image before his eyes.
— Paul Bamikole
A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.
— Elizabeth George
A woman must choose her friends and lovers wisely, for both can become like a bad stepmother and rotten stepsisters.In the case of our lovers, we often invest them with the power of a great Mage - a great magician. This is easy to do , for if we become truly intimate, it dislike unlocking a lead crystal atelier, a magic one, or so it feels to us. A lover can engender and/or destroy even our most durable connections to our own cycle and ideas. The destructive lover must be avoided. A better sort of lover is one finely wrought of strong psychic muscle and tender flesh. For Wild Woman it also helps if the lover is just a bit psychic too, a person who can "see into" her heart.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge. 
— Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading
When the wildish woman has an idea, the friend or lover will never say, "Well, I don't know . . . sounds really dumb [grandiose, undoable, expensive, etc.] to me." A right friend will never say that. They might say instead . . . "I don't know if I understand. Tell me how you see it. Tell me how it will work.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word ‘love’ in it.
— Karen Hawkins, How to Capture a Countess
A woman who has found her match with respect to depth of soul and who has quenched her thirst with her children is no different than the women of Paradise, and the home structured around such a person is no different than the gardens of Paradise. And it is no wonder that her children, who grow up savoring affection in the shelter of this paradise, will be no different than heavenly beings. Indeed those who are fortunate enough to be raised in such an atmosphere of affection will live in state of otherworldy joy as if they have been exalted to the heavens, inspiring high spirits all around through their smiles.
— M. Fethullah Gülen, Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief
Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation.
— Thiruman Archunan
There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed.
— Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
Communication by touch is not for every old dutch.
— Volodymyr Knyr
If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it!
— Thiruman Archunan
She'll be a fierce woman, that one. It'll take a hell of a man to love her right. Be like living with a thunderstorm. Same as her mother. A fierce woman. Force of nature. The kind of woman you just hand on for the ride. The most exciting and the most heartbreaking woman you could ever meet. They don't know their own minds most of the time, but their hearts are so damn big it hurts em inside.
— Brian  Doyle, Mink River
Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.
— John Eldredge
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.
— John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
Did I ever tell you about Asin? She is the wild woman of the woods. It's an old story of the People. My mom used to tell me about Asin. Asin couldn't bear being married or having children or having friends. She always wanted to run wild. She ran wild through the woods. If you saw her running you had to run to water as fast as you could and drink or her restlessness would come into you like a thirst that could never be quenched. She was happy and unhappy. She had wild long hair and she was very tall and she ran like the wind. When you saw dunegrass rippling in a line she was running through it. When the wind changed direction suddenly that was Asin. She was never satisfied or content and so she ran and ran and ran. She would grab men who were fishing alone and make love to them and then throw them down on the ground and run away weeping. She would grab children who wandered too far alone in the woods but she would return them to the same spot after three days and run away again. She would listen to women talking by the fire or working in the village or gathering berries but if they invited her to join them she ran away. You could hear her crying sometimes when the sun went down. She wanted something but she never knew what it was so she had nothing. She was as free as anyone ever could be and she was trapped. When I was young I wanted to be Asin. Many times I wanted to be Asin. So do you, Nora. I know. It's okay. It's alright. My sweet love. Poor Asin. Sometimes I think to be Asin would be the saddest thing in the world. Poor thing.
— Brian  Doyle, Mink River
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge
Teachers and women have one important thing in common
—  every man and woman that is born into this world is shaped by a teacher or a woman
Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman all the insults that have ever been the lot of her sex. Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; devil, adulteress, deceiver; and the swirling waters took his words, and tossed at his feet a broken pot and a little straw.
— Virginia Woolf
When a woman enters a room, her presence should make them feel some type of way; when she exits the room, she should leave some type of look on their face.
— Shakena Morgan
If we know ourselves, and know our hearts, we're always home, anywhere.
— Dawn Kohler, The Invitation: A Weekend with Emma
There were many women in the Soviet scientific community, proportionately more so than in the United States. But they tended to occupy menial middle-level positions, and male Soviet scientists, like their American counterparts, were puzzled about a pretty woman with evident scientific competence who forcefully expressed her views.
— Carl Sagan
But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes — and all the while remain as still as the centre of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women.
— Patrick Süskind
She can wear a veil, an eye mask, even a potato sack over her head - it doesn't matter. True beauty never fades; it radiates the kind of glow, that makes you turn your head and look, same way you unconsciously look for the stars, when the night is dark.
— Veronika Jensen
A woman never thoroughly cares for herlover until he has ceased to care for her
—  and it is not until you havesnapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that shebegins to smile upon you.
The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter
— Karan Patade
Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, - Mais de l'amertume des hommes)
— Charles de Leusse
What is the meaning of having more than one wife when threesome is not allowed?
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.
— Ann Barrett Batson, Having It Y'All: An Insider's Guide to Life Southern Style
A woman keeps her kitchen like her heart: Well stocked and labelled and shelved, with lots of air and light, spick and span and filled with love
— Prabhukrishna M
If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love
— Prabhukrishna M
Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem.
— Amanda Sun, Rain
If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done.
— Jean Little, Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope
One man's floor is another woman's ceiling .
— Youns Hussein
A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty.
— Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
— Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon
I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman
—  there is simply woman.
Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Why this fuss about understanding women?! It's so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises.
— Shweta Bhatnagar
He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.
— Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
She is a beauty. She is a challenge. She is the earth. She is the nature.She is the power that keeps the balance of this world. Respect her wisdom and be intimidated by her power.
— Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance.
— Terry Pratchett, Eric
Your face expresses a simple majesty, your look is that of a captive princess.
— Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco, My Simple Verses
Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.
— Henry Fielding, Amelia
Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
— Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
— Michelle M. Pillow, The Dragon's Queen
She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.
— Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life
i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry
— lucy ibbetson
Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!
— Tanya Masse
A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?
— Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or yousaw her setting out the baked pies at noon or taking them in,cool, at dusk. She rang porcelain cups like a Swiss bell ringerto their place. She glided through the halls as steadily as avacuum machine, seeking, finding, and setting to rights. Shemade mirrors of every window, to catch the sun. She strolledbut twice through any garden, trowel in hand, and the ﬂowersraised their quivering ﬁres upon the warm air in her wake.She slept quietly and turned no more than three times in anight, as relaxed as a White glove to which, at dawn, a brisk hand will return. Waking, she touched people like pictures,to set their frames straight.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Summer sticks to her skirt sumptuously, in the shiny gray fabric hanging loosely from her curves. Her chestnut eyes, apparently hidden from strangers; her simple but graceful face, unpainted by Madison Avenue; and her straight black hair, parted down the middle without ego, all suggest a minimalist - almost pastoral - beauty that is oddly discordant with her fashionable attire, comfortable indifference to the crowds, and quasi-attentive perusal of the Time magazine unfolded over her hand.
— Zack Love, City Solipsism: A Short Story
There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, 'fake men', and there are others who wants neither the woman, nor the body; such are tagged, 'GAY MEN
— Michael Bassey Johnson
A woman's weapon is her tongue.
— Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
The reason why a man cannot stop staring at a woman ass is only because God has spent 80 percent of his time and efforts on woman ass and 20 percent on her entire body.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Behind every successful man, is a Woman breathing through her mouth
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe’s right pocket), and I didn’t care who knew it. Attitude was everything when dealing with dwarfs.
— Erik Bundy, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
The American army,” said the Prince of Candia, “has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman.”“You’re very kind,” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.
— Curzio Malaparte, The Skin
A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.
— Elizabeth George
I won’t have my son doing drugs to get awoman that he shall never have.
— Initially NO, Wolfing It Down
Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A woman is always better in everything with the mouth
—  she talks a lot.
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.
— Jennifer Ott, Serendipidus
I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life.
— Steve Maraboli
Be proud of being a woman; proud of everything that comes in the package - including the mood swings of pms, the frustration of periods, the labour pains, everything. Along with the pms comes deeper understanding of yourself, your weaknesses and chance to improve upon, along with periods comes on the other side the ability to conceive and labour pains culminate in something lot wonderful.Celebrate womanhood every single day! We are special, a God-made package filled so much with love, caring, understanding and patience that I am sure even He must have felt proud after having created.Spread love. Happy Women's Day.
— Arti Honrao
We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving … We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins … We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers … We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.
— Courtney Martin
W- Work of ArtA- AchieverR- ResilientR- RadicalI- IndependentO- OrganizedR- Resourceful
— Shannon L. Alder
An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.
— Elizabeth George
Mother is her son's first god
—  she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love.
To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.
— Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.
— Shannon L. Alder
For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?
— Milan Kundera
I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.
— Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
To stand a storm and get blown away by her whisper.
— Saleem Sharma
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Your woman should always be short of words and full of kisses.
— Saleem Sharma
Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a drunken apology. I will tell her ‘make a home out of your body, live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify yourself. If you are a disaster it is not forever, if you are a disaster you are the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen. Do not deconstruct from the inside out, you belong here, you belong here, not because you are lovely, but because you are more than that.— Azra T. “Your hands are threads, your body is a canvas
— Azra T.
She lives her life like a flame
—  a dance of purposeful chaos.… Her enchanting light can guide you and quell your fears… She’s hot
True love has taught me that there is a difference between a woman getting naked for you and one revealing herself to you.
— Steve Maraboli
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him.
— Malcolm X
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.
— Elizabeth George, A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.
— Elizabeth George, A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If God existed, he, for sure, had a vice of his own, a woman he could not say no to and, he would have acted the same way if he were in Johnny Kiddow’s position.
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.
— Anna Bayes
Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.
— Andy Paula
The sea is not a whore, for she is free and joyous, but she is a woman. She obeys the moon, as women do, and her depths contain both treasures and horrors, and men try to bend her to their will and rarely succeed, no matter how much money they spend in the attempt. The sea does as she wishes, and anyone who would be her lover must be her partner, not her master.
— Susan Palwick, Homecoming
You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.
— Sergey Vedenyo
Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money- unless you were married to it. Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. His neighbors did not find his action hasty. It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime. p.19
— John Steinbeck
A good woman is a pleasured treasure.
— Habeeb Akande
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Have you noticed her name?"Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?" "Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.
— Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous.
— Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph
Remember! When you tell a woman that she cooks something very good
—  you will be fucked by eating it three times a day.
Every woman’s heart cannot be opened with words
—  sometimes you need to use your hands.
A woman never argues with a compliment.
— Erin Knightly, Ruined by a Rake
Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed...
— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko, Preemptive Revenge
When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.
— Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf
However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Mother
Why do you think there aren’t rules to how sex will work? You didn’t want to talk to me about what you wanted. You pushed me into the room so I wouldn’t turn on the light because you knew damn well I would push back on that, didn’t you?”She stayed where she was. “Yes. I don’t want you to see me. I don’t look like one of those girls in a magazine.”He groaned, the sound coming from deep in his chest. “Those girls in the magazines are airbrushed and way too thin. The camera adds pounds so those girls are so skinny I wouldn’t be able to fuck them for fear I would break them. I want a woman, Avery, not some tiny freaking thing whose waistline only proves she doesn’t eat. I want a woman who can take me. I want a woman I can hold on to. So bend over because I want to see your ass. I want to look at it because I’ve been dreaming about it for days. It’s hot and round and so fucking juicy I can’t stand it. Get me hot, Avery. Show me your ass.
— Lexi Blake, A Dom is Forever
How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.
— Sofía Navarro
He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.
— Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
— Coco Chanel
Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.
— Reuben " Mulah Truth " Holmes II
When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Ya've got no respect, woman," Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he'd
— Jana Oliver, Forgiven
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul.
— Roman Payne
After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.
— Sergei Lukyanenko, The Last Watch
I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.
— Marjorie Celona, Y
Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1
She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.
— Margaret Rome, Palace of the Hawk
I near felt bad he choose to be so evil to me. I am a forgiving woman, but my pen... oh my wicked wicked hormonal she-pen.
— Coco J. Ginger
A woman's beauty should not imitate art.
— Lionel Suggs
A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.
— Stephen King, Four Past Midnight
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
— Coco Chanel
Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.
— Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.
— Carolyn  Parkhurst, Lost and Found
Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.
— Roman Payne
Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
— Roman Payne, The Basement Trains
Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)
— Roman Payne
Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.
— Roman Payne
You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.
— Kim Gatlin, Good Christian Bitches
she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
— Georgia O'Keffe
No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
There is a shade of red for every woman.
— Audrey Hepburn
You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.
— Lisa Cach, Great-Aunt Sophia's Lessons for Bombshells
Women are extraordinary creatures!
— Roman Payne
Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
There is no greater catalyst for change in a man than a woman. To love a woman is to become a new kind of man, in one direction or another. A woman holds sway over all. The right woman can assume command of your every part of your being, both body and soul. Her conquest will be total.
— Bryan M. Litfin, The Sword
It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.
— Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42
— Alaa Al Aswany
Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles solavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate,graces so multitudinous.
— Charlotte Brontë
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
— Shane Claiborne
The best is the enemy of good.
— Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
— Steven Moffat
Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means
What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
— Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
— Harvey Dent
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)
— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.
— Thea Devine
Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
— Terry Pratchett
Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
— Mad-D
A smart model is a good model.
— Tyra Banks
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
— C.S. Lewis
There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.It’s no good getting worked up about stuff – it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.
— Jay Woodman