Action Quote by Jeremy Taylor

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight…

— George Eliot

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable…

— Daniel Defoe

“In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that…

— Virginia Woolf

“Their characteristics are well-known. They're beautiful -- when they're not astoundingly ugly. They're both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for them to…

— Marie Brennan

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a…

— Euripides

Women can be the most vicious creatures of this world and yet they are the most gentle angels in life.

— Anonymous

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

— Deborah King

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil…

— Rebecca West