#woman

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

#born #conventions #different #different points #exist

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#i #in the past #loved #man #must

Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.' ↗

— Mark Strong

#because #children #ever #get #had

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#body #care #i #like #look

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. ↗

— Tacitus

#her #lost #nothing #she #shrink

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#blush #bold #ceased #certain #defiance

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? ↗

— Studs Terkel

#black #black or white #books #first #first time

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#him #man #may #strange #think

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. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#chancellor #foreign #give #i #jobs

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#best #feel #film #filmmaking #i