#woman

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#couple #course #got #having #health

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#clean #clothes #go #good #hair

There is a woman at the begining of all great things. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#begining #great #great things #things #woman

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#aspiring #being #excuse #football #good

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#american #because #court #decision #equal

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life. ↗

— Allen Leech

#life #maggie #real #real life #serious

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? ↗

— Haniel Long

#baby #back #better #cannot #change

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#head #heart #her #husband #lover

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for. ↗

— James MacArthur

#could #deeper #enough #felt #her