Woman's Value Quotes

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her, she was deemed to be at the end of something--namely, everything society valued in her, other than her success as a mother.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

I cannot allow the occasion to pass without very sincerely thanking Mr. Baxter for his treatment of his subject as affecting the woman, and particularly for his able and singularly luminous expression of the instinct in the woman of any race which makes for racial purity—an instinct ... as dear ... as life itself, and ... being so, should be equally dear to the nation to which she belongs.