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MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the...
JOE HILL Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.
JOHN BUNYAN The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic
AUDRE LORDE A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly...
CHLOE THURLOW Underwear is the female second skin.
CHLOE THURLOW When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers ...
CHLOE THURLOW When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB The architecture of a woman's body is really amazing
SOTONYE ANGA It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
ERICA COOK The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.
IBNOULKHATIB YAHYA A simple smile can brighten a whole life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO Oh precious Lord!
Oh precious Lord!
Thou know them all
The thought of my mind
An...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
MARTY RUBIN There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter...
MINNA ANTRIM I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the wo...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break...
STEVEN CUOCO You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.''
ELINOR GLYN He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called, 'It
ELINOR GLYN If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ...
JOAQUIN MILLER Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for...
JANE RULE My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
BILL COSBY I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looki...
SHANIA TWAIN How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER If every smile were received with another one returned, and we were to begin with our own, it wouldn...
JOEY TALLADINO Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.
BELINDA JEFFREY Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who...
NTOZAKE SHANGE Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without...
ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP The only present that I want this Christmas is to see your smile so that I can remember that every d...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
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MARY HAYS The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
MARY PICKFORD One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a...
MARY DALY If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
MARY ARCHER Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
MARY BLY Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f...
MARY CATHERWOOD Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau...
MARY ARNIM In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
MARY MCCARTHY It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted...
MARY O'CONNOR No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
MARY STUART A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equali...
MARY DALY The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a...
MARY CABLE Life can be seen through your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea...
MARY XAVIER Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
MARY RENAULT Life can be seen your eyes but
it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
MARY XAVIER