Honest Woman Quotes

• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blood, Phrases, Influence

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Music, New York, Unhappy

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• Funny women are honest women.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Inspirational, Empowering, Funny Women

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• The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  America, Honest, Left

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• I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

  Robert Graves

  Believe, Passion, Poetry

  Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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• I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, World

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

  Susan Fletcher

  Strong Women, Sex, Clever

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• Religion
  Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
  And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

  Christopher Fry

  Religion, Kicking, Made

  Christopher Fry (1985). “Selected Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Locks, Wanted, Chins

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

  Marlene Dumas

  Class, Crowds, Scandal

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• Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

  Euripides

  Honest, Remember, Amount

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• Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Men, Needs, Littles

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• A very honest woman but something given to lie

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Lying, Given

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]

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