Happy Woman Quotes - Page 2

• The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Happiness, Home, Men

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

  Dennis Prager

  Feminism, Pool

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• I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Revolution

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

  Louise Otto-Peters

  Inspirational, Women, Thinking

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Selfish, Character, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fog, Gossip, Cynical

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

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• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Unhappy

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.24, OUP Oxford

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• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

  David Bowie

  Would Be, Needs, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Taught, Appreciated

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.187, Penguin

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• A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Mean, Miserable

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• A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Women, Home, Unmade Beds

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Sadness

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mom, Opportunity, Frustrated

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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