Quotes about Woman
You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.
— Euripides
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— Euripides
Is love so small a pain for a woman?
— Euripides
It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The Good is one thing; the reward is something else. To will the Good for the sake of reward is not to will one thing but two. If a man loves a woman for the sake of her wealth, who will call him a lover? To will the Good for the sake of reward is hypocrisy — sheer duplicity!
— Soren Kierkegaard
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
— Peter Kreeft
A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.
— Lysa TerKeurst
This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.
— Alfred Edersheim
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
— Alice Hoffman
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.
— Alice Hoffman