Pastoral Resources

Woman absent is woman dead.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.