595 Metaphors for woman

A careful study of the five hundred girls in this reform school as compared with the one thousand boys, proved clearly that women, there as elsewhere, are either the best or the worst of the human race.

They both practised, the qualifications of both were excellent, but the woman was the more brilliant of the two, having better degrees and more distinctions.

Minuuntur atrae conjuge curae, women are the sole, only joy, and comfort of a man's life, born ad usum et lusum hominum, firmamenta familiae, "Delitiae humani generis, solatia vitae.

It was as natural for her daughter to write as to breathe; but it was impossible for her daughter to forget that a woman of intellectual power could be the most successful of mothers.

If there be a distinction of soul by reason of the physical difference, or accompanying that physical difference, woman is the superior of man in mental and moral qualities.

The men of this country are fair and of a comely appearance, yet somewhat pale, having a small part of their heads shaven; but their women are the most beautiful of any under the sun.

How very influential they are to-day every one knows who is familiar with the articles and editorial work appearing in newspapers and magazines; and that women are very zealous reporters many people can attest with considerable vigour.

Women may be notaries public and members of Board of Education.

They say eternally, like my correspondent, that the ordinary woman is always a drudge.

Every helpless woman is such a blasphemy.

"The pious woman was a Van Busser.

No little woman who worked herself to skin-and-bone to keep things straight, and the home comfortable, was ever a more typical "squaw."

Women can be aldermen of the Council; and there is nothing to prevent one from holding even the office of chairman.

Clarissa is, as has been well said, the "Eve of fiction, the prototype of the modern heroine"; feminine psychology as good as unknown before (Shakespeare's women being the "Fridays" of a highly intelligent Crusoe) has hardly been brought further since.

Such a woman, for instance, as the Kaffir woman spoken of by Olive Schreiner in this passage, is the rare exception.

It has been said that "every woman is by nature more or less a nurse," but like most sayings it is by no means always true.

I have said that women are both executioners of the tiresome.

Therefore a woman who is perfectly truthful and not given to dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, and for this very reason they are so quick at seeing through dissimulation in others that it is not a wise thing to attempt it with them.

The woman called Vahine tahura'i is an evil spirit.

Gaston is devoted to me, and although I should not think of divorcing Harry, No matter what he does, because of letting that odious woman become Marchioness of Valmond, still it is nice to know someone else would absolutely die for you, isn't it, even though I don't want to marry himGaston, I meanWe arrived here last night.

"That woman is now a widow.

Woman, under the influence of chivalry, became the star of worship, an object of idolatry.

These women are Amazons not of their own accord but by order of the king.

Beside it is a woman is condemde;

What a fury that stern, pious, and puritanic woman became when she found out that her son had been calling down at the Blue House and was on friendly terms with a strange lady, an outsider, whom the respectable folk of the city would have nothing to do with, and of whom not a good word was ever heard except from the men at the Club, when they were sure their wives were not in hearing distance!

595 Metaphors for  woman