Character Quote by Honore de Balzac

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it…

— Glenn Close

“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”

— Ewart Grogan

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

— Confucius

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to…

— Anonymous

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully…

— Matthew Modine

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

— Esha Gupta

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

— Sheila Rowbotham

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint…

— Honore de Balzac

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

— Honore de Balzac

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference,…

— Honore de Balzac