Women

"Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?"

"O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman?"

"—And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench? —As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle."

"'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small: 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; The contrary doth make thee wondered at: 'Tis government that makes them seem divine."

"I grant I am a woman, but withal, A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife: I grant I am a woman; but withal A woman well-reputed; Cato's daughter."

"O constancy! be strong upon my side; Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue; I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might. How hard it is for women to keep counsel!"

"She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman."

"A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman."

"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

"What peremptory, eagle-sighted eye Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, That is not blinded by her majesty?"

"We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo."

"Would it not grieve a woman to be overmaster'd with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a cloud of wayward marl?"

"One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well: another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."

"A maid That paragons description and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener."

"Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature."

"Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for nought?"

"Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute? Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me."

"Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale; Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew; Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence."

"'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward. But a harsh hearing, when women are froward."

"The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, The gunner, and his mate, Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, But none of us cared for Kate; For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor, Go hang! She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch; Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch. Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang!"

"To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue."

"He bears an honorable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly."

"Women will love her that she is a woman More worth than any man; men, that she is The rarest of all women."

"Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing; That she beloved knows nought that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungained more than it is."

"Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour."

"I wonder why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our women And if we don't we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies that make the babies And since a man can't make one He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one So will the real men get up I know you're fed up, ladies, but keep your head up."

"Women, for the sake of their children and parents, submit to slaveries and prostitutions that no unattached woman would endure."

"Woman reduces us all to the common denominator."

"Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse."

"She was an extremely attractive woman if you like the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones."

"One moral's plain, * * * without more fuss; Man's social happiness all rests on us: Through all the drama—whether damn'd! or not— Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot."

"Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here's to the widow of fifty Here's to the flaunting, extravagant queen; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass— Drink to the lass— I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass!"

"She is herself of best things the collection."

"Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty."

"It is against womanhood, to be forward in their own wishes."

"Woman was formed to admire, man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noon-day; hers the softened splendour of the midnight moon."

"She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent’s dream."

"Lor', but women's rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost, And I reckon it's just through a woman the last man on earth'll be lost."

"Far may be sought Erst that ye can fynde So corteise, so kynde As mirry Margarete, This midsomer flowre, Jentyll as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre."

"By saynt Mary, my lady, Your mammy and your dady Brought forth a godely babi!"

"This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind."

"If we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things."

"What wilt not woman, gentle woman, dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. ... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. ... Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."

"Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered."

"The craft is only one path among the many opening up for women, and many of us will blaze new trails as we explore the uncharted country of our own interiors. The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts."

"Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous."

"So I wonder a woman, the Mistress of Hearts, Should ascend to aspire to be Master of Arts; A Ministering Angel in Woman we see, And an Angel need cover no other Degree. —O why should a Woman not get a Degree?"