Pastoral Resources

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.