Being a woman Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being a woman Poverty Single women
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“...it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
In life, something from everything will leave a mark on your heart. It might be happiness, lamentations, or both. Memories will make you the… — Myself Copy Share Image
I have said no such thing.i am only resolved to act in a way that will enhance my happiness' — AXLL_SBLNS Copy Share Image
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a good woman, but I do claim to be good at being a woman. — Suzanne Copy Share Image
I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices… — Barbara Seaman Copy Share Image
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A woman's place isn't above her man or beneath her man it's beside her man. — SONYA PARKER Copy Share Image
Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person. — Mildred H. McAfee Copy Share Image
This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry. — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
