Status of women from Buddhist’s perspective
- Part 2 -

Thangjam Sanjoo Singh *

The quotations given below in this article are the sayings of the founders of several religions and also different religious teachers as well as great philosophers, thinkers, scientists, historians, psychologists, politicians, free thinkers and some other publications too. Their names and references are given under each quotations. There are many other sayings where references or names are not given. Most of them are extracted from the Buddhist texts that I learnt.

FIVE POWERS THAT MAKE A WOMAN CONFIDENT
The power of beauty,
The power of wealth,
The power of kinship,
The power of procreation,
The power of virtue.

But it is due to the power of virtue that a woman is reborn in fortunate states of death.

MAN'S WILL AND WOMAN'S WAY
Man has his will, but woman has her way.

WHERE IS PARADISE?
When Prophet Mohammed was asked where paradise, he said that paradise is at the feet of the mother.

A VIRTUOUS WOMAN
Such a virtuous lady who possesses religious devotion, cultivates virtue, is endowed with wisdom and learning makes a success of her life in this very existence.

SELF-SACRIFICE IS MORE IMPORTANT
There must be no thought of man or woman being superior. Each is complimentary to the other, a partnership in equality, exuding gentleness, generosity, calm and dedication and most important of all, self sacrifice.

TWO FAULTS IN MEN AND MANY IN WOMAN
Women have many faults; men have only two – everything they say and everything they do.

WHERE BEAUTY LIES
Beauty lies in the of the beholder.

TWO FAULTS IN MEN AND MANY IN WOMEN
Women have many faults; men have only two – everything they say and everything they do.

THE HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD
The hands that rock the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
—W.R. Wallace

IMAGINATION OF A LADY
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
—Jane Austen

HEART ARGUES WITH WOMAN
With woman, the heart argues not the mind.
—Mathew Arnold

WHERE HEAVEN AND HELL ARE
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
—William Congreve

MOTHERS ARE PHILOSOPHERS
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
—Harriet Becker Stowe

INDESPENSABLE TO EACH OTHER
As unto to bow the cord, so unto the man is woman; though she bends him, she obeys him, yet she follows; useless each without the other.
—Harry Wadswoth Longfellow

WOMAN'S INTUITION IS GRAVE
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
—Mahtama Gandhi

HOW WOMAN CAN CHANGE THE MAN
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
—Robert Frost

WHY WOMEN ARE IN FRONT
I asked a man why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk in front. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
—Robert Mueller

WHO IS THE BEST HUSBAND
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have, the older she gets, the more interest he has in her.
—Agatha Christie

WHAT IS MONEY FOR
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
—Aristotle Onassis

WOMEN AND TEABAG
A woman is like a teabag-you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
—Nancy Reagan

A WOMAN'S GUESS AND MAN'S CERTAINITY
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
—Rudyard Kipling

HIS WIFE IS ALWAYS BEHIND
Behind every great man is a woman, and behind him is his wife.
—Groucho Marx

WOMEN AND BACHELORS
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
—George Bernard Shaw

WOMAN INSPIRES BUT PREVENTS
Woman inspires us to great things and prevents us from achieving them.
—Alexander Dumas

ONE WHO NEVER REMEMBERS A WOMAN'S AGE
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
—Robert Frost