Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?
I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.
I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circ...
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.
A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
