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Women Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
- Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
- A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
- What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
- Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
- Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
- A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
- Men are what their mothers made them.
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always…
- Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps…
- Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
More Women Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood