"We women were allowed to stand at the Cross. We saw His wounds bleed and His eyes grow dim. As He was dying Jesus put His faith in us, we were to carry His love through the whole world and here we sit and have forgotten Him."

"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm."

"When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone."

"The sleek Brazilian jaguar Does not in its arboreal gloom Distil so rank a feline smell As Grishkin in a drawing-room."

"In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."

"Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts."

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

"Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science."

"Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make."

"We will our rights in learning's world maintain; Wit's Empire now shall know a female reign."

"From the first dawn of life unto the grave, Poor Womankind's in every state a slave."

"Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman?"

"And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: who so pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found."

"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."

"Six hours like this for a few francs. Belly nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me. Further to the right, Madame. And do try to be still. I shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art."

"I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five and twenty."

"What all your sex desire is Sovereignty."

"She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence; Sex to the last."

"And that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind."

"A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin."

"For women with a mischief to their kind, Pervert with bad advice our better mind."

"And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy."

"La femme est, selon la Bible, la dernière chose que Dieu a faite. Il a dû la faire le samedi soir. On sent la fatigue."

"Cherchez la femme."

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex."

"In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature."

"Man, the infatuated idealist, always on the look-out for something to adore, created, in one of his moments of mediæval vapours, the Madonna-woman. It was a benignantly grinning idol, inanely oracular, to be approached on bended knees. In those days, women had to acquiesce in all his unhealthy whimsies, and many of them began to take the thing seriously and to play his game. Now, they mean to have no more of it; they are sick, utterly sick, of the Madonna business. They mean to laugh again and to enjoy life like other beasts of the earth: like men, in fact. Whenever, therefore, you catch yourself thinking that women are saints and angels, be sure you take a blue pill."

"A woman is always a woman even if she is a nun."

"A woman is incapable of complete remorse."

"A woman would deceive the all-seeing eye itself."

"Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Behind, before, above, between, below. O, my America, my New-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann'd."

"Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell; Inn anywhere; And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam, Carrying his own home still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy-paced) this snail: Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

"The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever Their red it never dies: But Phillida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,— It wavers to a rose."

"It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world."

"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."

"Ἡ τὰ ῥόδα, ῥοδόεσσαν ἔχεις χάριν ἀλλὰ τί πωλεῖς; σαυτήν, ἢ τὰ ῥόδα; ἠὲ συναμφότερα."

"What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - These Gentlewomen are - One would as soon assault a Plush - Or violate a Star - Such Dimity Convictions - A Horror so refined Of freckled Human Nature - Of Deity - ashamed -"

"A solemn thing - it was - I said - A Woman - white - to be - And wear - if God should count me fit - Her blameless mystery -"

"A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later."

"But in some odd nook in Mrs. Todgers's breast, up a great many steps, and in a corner easy to be overlooked, there was a secret door, with "Woman" written on the spring, which, at a touch from Mercy's hand, had flown wide open, and admitted her for shelter."

"But were it to my fancy given To rate her charms, I'd call them heaven; For though a mortal made of clay, Angels must love Ann Hathaway;She hath a way so to control, To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, That to be heaven Ann hath a way;She hath a way, Ann Hathaway,— To be heaven's self Ann hath a way."

"Please, come take my hand Girl, you'll be a woman soon Soon, you'll need a man."

"La Femme, enfant malade et douze fois impur!"

"Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière pensée."

"Women is strange. You take my tip; I’m wise. I know enough to know I'll never know The ’uman female mind."

"Now, a woman, she’s a woman. I ’ave fixed that for a cert. They’re jist as like as rows uv peas from ’at to ’em uv skirt. An’ then, they’re all so different, yeh find, before yeh’ve done, The more yeh know uv all uv ’em the less yeh know uv one."

"Now we have courtesans for the sake of pleasure, but concubines for the sake of daily cohabitation, and wives for the purpose of having children legitimately, and of having a faithful guardian of all our household affairs."

"Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old."

"There's no music when a woman is in the concert."