Confidant Quote by George Farquhar

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”

— John Steinbeck

“To be dispensable is a woman's worst nightmare and I was beginning to live it. [36]”

— Tendai Huchu

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every…

— Washington Irving

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

— Linda Howard

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

— Alexander Pope

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used,…

— John Eldredge

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude…

— Robertson Davies

“Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet: She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary…

— Janet Aylmer