#woman

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#hood #making #men #only #path

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#breadth #captive #development #fences #get

Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful. ↗

— Merle Oberon

#difficult #feel #look #security #without

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#first #front #glass #hand #how

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth. ↗

— Anna Torv

#always #being #cooler #emotions #enjoyed

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. ↗

— Emo Philips

#being #day #every #every day #get

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #the-strength-of-a-woman #true-strength #wisdom-quotes #women

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#woman #art

Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fake #gentle #genuine #inspirational #inspirational-life

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#cannot #ugly #who #woman