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Woman Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the…
- Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the…
- A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is…
- If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
- What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children,…
More Woman Quotes
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- 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