Women's Life Quotes

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.