I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
I'm not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.
A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Every woman is after a kind of classy image.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules.
When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.
Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.
A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'
Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
There's the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you're doing it - like, 'Oh, my God.'
The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
