Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.
Women have cleaned up things since time began, and if women get into politics there will be a cleanup.
Born of woman, nourished by woman, wedded to woman, why do they revile woman? …. Why revile her that gives birth to kings amongst men
Head of the Sikh Religion
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Women have long found themselves grieving for the dead and caring for the wounded during and after war, but … as more and more women become war fighters themselves, they too face danger and see horrors, often with the added burden if sexual harassment and worse at the hands of their fellow warriors—burdens aggravated by official indifference.
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.
I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?
If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.
When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
Women's work is always toward wholeness.
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
The woman's function is to fascinate men.
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is the history of progressive movements - such as the abolitionist campaign in Britain or the fight for African-American civil rights - in which the role of women has been diminished.
