Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

Laura Schlessinger

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Mary Astell

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Nicolas Chamfort

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Patricia Hill Collins

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Patricia Hill Collins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Richard Dawkins

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

Subcomandante Marcos

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Salman Rushdie

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Tracy McMillan

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

Twyla Tharp

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

Vincent Gallo

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. Somerset Maugham

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Sidney Lanier

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson