She Cannot Quotes
68 quotes by 61 authors
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,…
— Alexander Herzen
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of the woman. If…
— Rajneesh
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot…
— Albertus Magnus
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Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.
— Margaret Barber
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Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.
— Rihanna
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I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She…
— Billie Burke
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The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche.…
— Gertrud von Le Fort
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Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything…
— Mark Strand
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To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two…
— Louise Thaden
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The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than…
— Jane Austen
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A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look…
— Arnold Haultain
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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to…
— Warren Farrell
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for…
— Betsy Lerner
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
— Audre Lorde
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