#omen

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #omen




The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.


Nancy E. Turner


#motherhood #wife #women #marriage

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!


Angela Carter


#women #marriage

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.


Charlotte Brontë


#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#wives #women #love

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.


Charlotte Brontë


#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available were all imperfect. If you chose to be with someone, you often wanted to be alone. If you chose to be alone, you often felt the unbearable need for another body - not necessarily for sex, but just to rub your foot, to sit across the table, to drop his things around the room in a way that was maddening but still served as a reminder that he was there.


Meg Wolitzer


#relationships #women #marriage

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.


Margaret Sanger


#sex #women #marriage

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.


Michael Winner


#humour #marriage #men-and-women #michael #stupidity

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.


Héloïse d'Argenteuil


#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...


Daphne du Maurier


#women #marriage