Clairvoyant n. A person ordsprog

en Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.
  Eleanor Holmes Norton

en Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure. Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery
  Samuel Johnson

en He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he
Can't Perceive
And he's a Fool who tries to make such a
Blockhead believe.
  William Blake

en A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
  Benjamin Franklin

en The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
  Jean Baudrillard

en Mercury is invisible, and when you have something that's invisible, it's just hard to convey. But when that invisible threat's hitting something and harming it, and you're watching a loon, it definitely hits home.

en It was an exciting time and quite an experience. I loved the dancing and entertaining part of it. In retrospect, becoming a mother and having daughters has made me view it differently. Being a sex symbol gives a woman a false sense of power. Education gives a woman real power.

en This is a great class. I am a widow; many are widows who have gone through cancer. It restores confidence in your body. It's more than a dance. It's a way, for senior women particularly, to regain a lot of the feeling of womanhood they have lost. Women become invisible after a certain age. We say that to each other. There is an age after menopause -- you just become invisible. And this is a way of feeling very womanly and a way of breaking free of the stereotype of the older woman. I like to call it sensual, not sexual. What you see onstage is vaudeville. We are not talking about sex. There is a way to do it tastefully and a way to do it not tastefully.

en We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman
  Guru Nanak

en A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house
  Ben Johnson

en Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
  Charles V

en I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

en As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power
  St. Thomas Aquinas

en She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
  O. Henry


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