#woman

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#beautiful #beautiful woman #i #i am #know

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#alcoholism #animal #child #divine #drinking

I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember? ↗

— Sharon Sala

#men

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#beauty

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#cut #feel #i #scissors #want

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#cut #does #her #holding #hopes

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. ↗

— George William Curtis

#makes #men #nature #win #woman

Woman is at once apple and serpent. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#once #serpent #woman

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#deeply #look #love #many #men

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having