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Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind. (Allende Isabel)
Most women have no characters at all. (Allende Isabel)
The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. (Allende Isabel)
A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. (Allende Isabel)
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me. (Allende Isabel)
Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification! (Allende Isabel)
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. (Allende Isabel)
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. (Allende Isabel)
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. (Allende Isabel)
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. (Allende Isabel)
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. (Allende Isabel)
The clich that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies. (Allende Isabel)
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. (Allende Isabel)
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. (Allende Isabel)
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked. (Allende Isabel)
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. (Allende Isabel)
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. (Allende Isabel)
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. (Allende Isabel)
The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned. (Allende Isabel)
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. (Allende Isabel)
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends. (Allende Isabel)
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