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Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Women

1802–1838 England

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A woman only can understand a woman; and it is pleasant to be understood sometimes.

Francesca Carrara (1834)

Oh! why should woman ever love,
Trusting to one false star above;
And fling her little chance away
Of sunshine for its treacherous ray.

The Troubadour (1825)

Where on earth is the truth that may vie
With woman's lone and long constancy?

The Golden Violet (1827)

Oh ! never should a woman's words be more
Than sighs which have found utterance.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Romance and Reality (1831)

Her rival—hers—language has not a word
By woman's ear so utterly abhorr'd.
No marvel, for it robs her only part
Of sweet dominion—empire o'er the heart.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Oh, all
Know love is woman's happiness.

The Improvisatrice (1824)

The apple blossoms' shower of pearl,
The pear tree's rosier hue,
As beautiful as woman's blush,
As evanescent too.

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

By turns the woman and the queen,
And each as the other had never been.

Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page,
A woman's heart, of feelings, thoughts, that make
The atmosphere in which her spirit moves

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Ah, Woman has no look so sweet
As that, when, half afraid to meet
The look she loves, blushes betray
All the suppressed glance would say.

A woman always exaggerates her beauty and its influence when they are past ; and it was a perpetual grief to think what her pretty face might have done for her.

I am a woman:—tell me not of fame.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

What! still retaining your Utopian visions of female felicity? To talk of our happiness! — ours, the ill-used and oppressed! You remind me of the ancient tyrant, who, seeing his slaves sink under the weight of their chains, said 'Do look at the indolent repose of those people!'

Romance and Reality (1841)

Born with them—born with them : all alike ! No pleasure equal to the pleasure of tormenting, to a woman.
Theresa

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

My power was but a woman's power;
Yet, in that great and glorious dower
Which Genius gives, I had my part:
I poured my full and burning heart

The Improvisatrice (1824)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.