The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
The older I get, the prouder I am to be a woman in the industry. When I was younger and running around all the time on tour, I don’t think I took the time to notice how being a woman in my position is really a gift. I want to make sure I utilize all that power.
The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.[La femme la plus vertueuse peut être indécente à son insu.]
The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.[La femme mariée est un esclave qu’il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.]
The main difference between a man and a woman is that the man always puts his stomach before his heart and a woman does the opposite.
The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness.[Le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse.]
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord.[Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise.]Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. I think—
The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.[On trompe difficilement les yeux d’une femme qui aime.]
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
