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Woman Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
- A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good…
- A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
- I was with book, as a woman is with child.
- She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom…
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
- The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an…
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- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall