„Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.“

„They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.“

—  Virginia Woolf, книга To the Lighthouse

Источник: To the Lighthouse

„Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy [resources] she wins the greater [meed] of hope.“

—  Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907)

„when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural“

—  Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898

Источник: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

„It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.“

—  Simone de Beauvoir, книга The Second Sex

Источник: The Second Sex

„Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.“

—  Camille Paglia American writer 1947

Источник: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 52

„Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.“

—  Josh Billings American humorist 1818 - 1885

„She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.“

—  Elena Ferrante, книга My Brilliant Friend

Источник: My Brilliant Friend

„She was by nature a sunny soul“

—  Jean Webster, книга Daddy-Long-Legs

Источник: Daddy-Long-Legs

„Nadia Boulanger was quite aware that as a composition teacher she labored under two further disadvantages: she was not herself a regularly practicing composer and in so far as she composed at all she must of necessity be listed in that unenviable category of the woman composer. Everyone knows that the high achievement of women musicians as vocalists and instrumentalists has no counterpart in the field of musical composition. This historically poor showing has puzzled more than one observer. … Is it possible that there is a mysterious element in the nature of musical creativity that runs counter to the nature of the feminine mind? … The future may very well have a different tale to tell; for the present, however, no woman's name will be found on the list of world-famous composers.“

—  Aaron Copland American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor 1900 - 1990

Copland on Music (1960) ISBN 0393001989.

„There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.“

—  Thomas Mann, книга The Magic Mountain

Источник: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

„Between a man and a woman, collaboration and admiration are more natural than competition. The woman accepts the secondary role willingly; she gives the man what he needs in the way of courage and moral support.“

—  André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

„Nature gave horns to the bull,
Hoofs gave she to the horse.
To the lion cavernous jaws,
And swiftness to the hare.
The fish taught she to swim,
The bird to cleave the air;
To man she reason gave;
Not yet was woman dowered.
What, then, to woman gave she?
The priceless gift of beauty.
Stronger than any buckler,
Than any spear more piercing.
Who hath the gift of beauty.
Nor fire nor steel shall harm her.“

—  Anacreon Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns -570 - -485 до н.э.

Odes, XXIV.

„She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.“

—  Emile Zola French writer (1840-1902) 1840 - 1902

Источник: Pot Luck

„Nature may not be benign, but she is reliable.“

—  James K. Morrow (1947-) science fiction author 1947

Источник: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 157)

„Athena's great problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making no secret of the fact, either. Did she pay a price? She certainly did. But she would have paid a still higher price if she had repressed her natural exuberance. She would have been bitter, frustrated, always concerned about "what other people might think," always saying, "I'll just sort these things out, then I'll devote myself to my dream," always complaining "that the conditions are never quite right."“

—  Paulo Coelho, книга The Witch of Portobello

Deidre O'Neill, known as Edda, p. 11.
The Witch of Portobello (2007)

„She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.“

—  Jane Austen, книга Persuasion

Источник: Persuasion

„You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'
She shook her head. […] 'What they do is their nature,' she said.“

—  Kingsley Amis, книга Take a Girl Like You

Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)

„Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven.“

—  Matthew Prior British diplomat, poet 1664 - 1721

Charity (1703).

„So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.“

—  Daniel Handler, книга Adverbs

Источник: Adverbs