#woman

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#hard-to-get #knowing-your-worth #love #playing-hard-to-get #positive-thinking

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then. ↗

— Erin Gray

#charge #colonel #enjoyed #female #first

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exposure #general #her #herself #interesting

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#businesswoman #children #chip #common #common sense

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#cloth #coat #i #man #pity

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#know #many #more #only #she

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#caring #facial #gives #grows #her

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#carries #clothes #combs #figure #hair

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ↗

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

#child #common #cut #described #done

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#happiness #melancholy #sadness #sleep #waking