Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent. Joanna Baillie.
Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. Thackeray.
Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will 5 still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. Bovee.
Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. Ruskin.
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. Bovee.
Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. Mme. Necker.
Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sound best in a room; but man's that of wind instruments, which sound best in the open air. Jean Paul.
Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. 10 Eusden.
Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is, that their persons are like their hearts—they read another's better than they can their own. Jean Paul.
Women and clergymen have so long been in the habit of using pretty words without troubling themselves to understand them, that they now revolt from the effort, as if it were impiety. Ruskin.