Top 1200 Decent Woman Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

I don't believe in telling girls to mess with their bodies. Be healthy, be happy, be a decent person, enjoy yourself - that's more important.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I'm not one of those Hollywood moms where my kid is three weeks old and I'm a size zero. I'm a real woman and I'm a working woman and a working mom.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be a woman working in America. It looks very different to be a working woman in other places in the world.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

First-ever woman to have an iron-man match. It's been such a long time, to be the second woman ever to main event a Raw.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

I have - and this isn't a thing I talk about often - a decent set of legs. There's an unexpected musculature that lends them a healthy shape.

I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.

If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Woman: Really? Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.

Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

I would like to think that I'm always honest with myself and others. I guess that's what makes me a half-decent actor.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.

There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.