Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Sex Quotes, Women Quotes

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

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