Confidence Quote by Honore de Balzac

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

— Anonymous

“Failure produces wisdom when we ask for it and maturity when we learn from it. And although it seems contradictory, failure can help us…

— Renee Swope

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

— Honore de Balzac

“A fundamental error that I have noticed within a lot of independent women, is that by default, they must succeed. If not, their self-reflection…

— Lionel Suggs

“Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content…

— Penelope J. Stokes

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

— Nicolas Chamfort

After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They…

— Janet Fitch

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

— Anne Rice

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

— Samuel Richardson

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the…

— Naomi Weisstein

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

— Bari Weiss