"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Woman, Blush, Defiance, Shame

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

Woman, Women, Revolution, Joy, Struggle

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic

Woman, Women, Students, Writer

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Woman, Women, Dumb

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

Woman, Women, Women

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Woman, Women, Battle, Rights

"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women, Idea, Fulfillment, Job

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women, Work, Care, May

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women

"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive."

Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet

Woman, Years

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

Woman, Men, Women

Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."

Love

"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

Woman

"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

Fool

"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."

Caution

"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."

Merit

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."

Reputation

"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."

Government

"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."

Crime

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Army

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."

Pleasure