I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.
I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend lived, or a person from my community here, or a woman anywhere around the world.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?
My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
