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Women Quotes

We’ve collected the best Women Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Virginia Woolf, Gloria Steinem, Katharine Hepburn, Clare Boothe Luce, David Bailey. Use them as an inspiration.

1
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
2
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
3
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
4
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes‘; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
5
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
6
Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.
7
I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
8
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
9
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
10
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
Helene Deutsch
11
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun
12
For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Juvenal
13
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
14
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
15
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
16
Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
17
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
18
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
19
If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
20
To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.
21
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
22
Powerful women intimidate men. If she‘s a really well-known woman, she has a career, she’s famous – in that case, men are really afraid.
23
I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Babe Ruth
24
You’re not working with models, you’re working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
25
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
26
Women have this obsession with shoes.
Alexandra Paul
27
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
28
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
29
I think women are excellent social critics.
30
It can’t be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.
31
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia Earhart
32
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
33
Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.
Errol Flynn
34
Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.
35
I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidencequalities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.
Taye Diggs
36
The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier
37
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.
38
Women’s tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
Pat Cash
39
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
40
There’s a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It’s a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women – I think they’re all a family, and they’re just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead
41
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
42
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
43
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
44
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail
45
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
Marianne Vos
46
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
47
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
48
We needed to be assertive as women in those days – assertive and aggressive – and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.
Katherine Johnson
49
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.
50
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
51
Women pay attention to how men drive because it’s a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who’s going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.
52
I feel women with long hair have a completely different charm – they can attract more attention and if I may say so, they look so Indian!
53
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
54
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr
55
If we’re discussing women’s empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.
56
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
57
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
58
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan‘s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
59
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
60
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
61
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
62
I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.
63
The Woman’s Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
64
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
65
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
66
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
67
Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
68
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
69
For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
70
In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.
71
There’s no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy, and I think that’s a message a lot of women need to hear.
72
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.
73
Cricket is not gender biased. It isn’t that men’s cricket is different and women’s a different one.
74
It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
75
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.
76
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
77
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.
78
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
79
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can’t see the person for all the clutter.
80
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
Michael Hutchence
81
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
82
Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let’s not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.
83
I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.
84
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
85
Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.
86
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
87
As we know, menstrual hygiene is an issue women have been facing over the years. It’s great that the initiative to provide low-cost sanitary napkins has been undertaken. It is an empowering step for many women.
88
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
89
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
90
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
91
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
92
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
93
More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.
94
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake
95
The same way that racism is a white person’s problem, violence against women is a men’s problem.
96
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
97
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
98
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
99
People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ’em.
100
Women have this obsession with shoes.
Alexandra Paul
101
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
102
103
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
104
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
105
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
106
Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
107
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
108
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
109
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
110
Nigeria‘s unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made.
111
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
112
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
113
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
114
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
115
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
116
I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
117
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
118
So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.
119
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
120
Women are the engine driving the growth in California‘s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
121
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
122
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom’s! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
123
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
124
Women are women, and hurray for that.
John Galliano
125
It’s really important that young women be reminded that their involvement matters and that their voice is heard. Even if it feels like it’s small, it really can make an impact.
126
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
127
Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I’ve pulled through everything and I’ve not become bitter about it.
Samantha Fox
128
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don’t put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don’t put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
Ines de La Fressange
129
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
130
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.
131
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
132
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
133
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
134
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
135
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.
136
Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
137
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
138
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
139
In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
140
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I’m very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid.
Ksenia Solo
141
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
142
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
143
I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.
144
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
145
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.
146
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
147
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
148
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
149
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
150
All together now: Women don’t cause sexual harassment, harassers do.
151
As I’ve always said, ‘I’m a lover, not a fighter.’ I’m much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
152
The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.
153
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
154
I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
155
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
156
Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.
157
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Shelley
158
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
159
I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
160
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
161
I am not a sexy woman, I’m not beautiful, I’m not a sex kitten, I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much: people are curious.
162
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
163
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds.
164
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
165
If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
166
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
167
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
168
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
169
At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
170
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
Emma Bonino
171
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
172
You’re not working with models, you’re working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
173
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
174
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
175
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. Henry
176
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
177
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
178
A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn’t such a big fan.
Marion Jones
179
Success doesn’t come overnight, especially for women.
180
In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.
181
As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
182
I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
183
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
184
Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about women’s health care needs; it cares about abortion.
185
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
186
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
Madam C. J. Walker
187
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
188
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
189
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
190
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
191
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
192
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
193
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
194
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
195
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don’t understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
196
‘The Lady’s World’ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
197
In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.
198
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
199
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
200
People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.
201
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
202
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
203
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
204
I’m glad I’m not bisexual. I couldn’t stand being rejected by men as well as women.
Bernard Manning
205
Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
206
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
207
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
208
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger
209
Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
210
Americans like fat books and thin women.
211
I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.
212
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
213
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
214
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
215
I’m just going to say I’m not gay. I really, really like women. That’s all I can really say about that.
216
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
217
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I’m a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
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Women’s Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Joan Crawford
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Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
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You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It’s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
225
Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate – strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
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I don’t get all the women that I want… I get all the women that want me.
228
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
229
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
231
Women are so complicated, it’s unbelievable.
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For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
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A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
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Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
John Gray
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It is always the village women who drive these things.
Stephen Lewis
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
239
The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
241
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Fred Ward
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I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
243
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it’s a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.
244
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
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I’ve never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
246
I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
Haley Lu Richardson
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There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubinstein
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Minna Antrim
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
250
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
251
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Errol Flynn
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I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
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Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
254
I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.
255
I never say ‘nagging.’ I think that ‘nagging’ is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it’s a trap that we’ve created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it’s a term men created.
256
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin
257
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
258
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries‘ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
259
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes
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Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’
261
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
Gary Gygax
262
If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
Nina Shaw
263
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
264
Women should be obscene and not heard.
265
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner
266
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
267
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
268
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
269
I think older women still have a full life.
270
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
271
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
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I want ‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it’s me, it’s you – it’s every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.
273
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Abbe Pierre
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
275
They say women and music should never be dated.
276
Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.
277
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can’t be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
278
Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
Keith Sweat
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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
281
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
282
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
283
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
284
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
285
High heels empower women in a way.
286
I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
287
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
288
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
289
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.
290
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
291
Strong women only marry weak men.
292
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
293
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Ninon de L’Enclos
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
295
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
Agnes Macphail
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You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.
297
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they’re not with a partner then it doesn’t really count. They’re still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don’t discuss that, because it’s too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
298
I’ve been in love with both men and women. I’ve been ghosted by both men and women.
299
In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn’t the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
301
All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
302
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Ian Fleming
303
I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn’t very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
304
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
305
Guitars are like women. You’ll never get them totally right.
306
A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
307
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
308
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
309
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
310
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with.
311
Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide.
312
I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
313
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
314
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
315
I don’t call myself a women’s footballer; I say I’m a footballer.
316
Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.
Judith Love Cohen
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
318
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
319
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
320
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.
321
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
322
With trans people, I just think you can’t help the way you are born, though. You know, it’s DNA, it’s genetics. I’m just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they’re trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous – it’s a minority of people.
323
I haven‘t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
324
I’m like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons… I stand defiant, tall and strong.
325
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
326
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
327
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast.
328
Silence is an ornament for women.
329
Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
330
I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.
331
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
332
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
333
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
Lucy Stone
334
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women’s economic freedom.
335
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
336
Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
337
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
338
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
339
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
340
All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
341
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
342
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
Richard J. Daley
343
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
344
Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
345
In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
346
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
347
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur Ashe
348
That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
349
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
350
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.
351
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
352
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
353
To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
354
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
355
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It’s the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they’d never stop slapping us.
Larry Miller
356
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
357
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
358
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
359
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
360
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.
361
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
Betty Friedan
362
I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.
Grace Kelly
363
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.
364
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
365
I don’t know why so many people in America hate Hillary Clinton; I found her to be one of the most gracious, intelligent, perceptive, and, yes, classy women I have ever met.
366
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.
367
Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.
368
Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.
369
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
370
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Grace Kelly
371
I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
372
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Otto Weininger
373
It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
374
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
375
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
376
My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.
Kodak Black
377
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
George William Curtis
378
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
379
I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl’s. I can’t wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.
380
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
381
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
382
Women don’t realize how powerful they are.
Judith Light
383
We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
384
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
385
Women. They are a complete mystery.
386
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Patricia Schroeder
387
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
388
Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
389
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
390
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
391
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
392
I think French women tend to keep it simple. I’d say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.
393
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
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It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
396
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
397
I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
398
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women’s movement of the late 1960s and ’70s.
399
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
400
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
401
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
402
Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.
403
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.
404
I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it’s a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let’s own who we are and use it as a strength.
405
A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
406
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.
407
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
408
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.’
409
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
410
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
411
But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
412
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
413
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
414
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don’t talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.
415
Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
416
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there’s not a lens long enough for that.
417
I can promise you that women working togetherlinked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
418
I always play women I would date.
419
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas Moore
420
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
421
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.
422
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
423
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
424
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.
425
What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
426
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
Madam C. J. Walker
427
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
428
Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
429
Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.
430
I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that’s like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She’s always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat – I love that.
431
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
432
There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.
Mario Lopez
433
Men and women have roles – their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
434
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
435
Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
436
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You’re trying to pack a lot in.
437
Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
438
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
Dusty Springfield
439
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
440
‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
441
If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.
442
I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.
443
I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.
444
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
445
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
446
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
447
‘Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.
448
I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can’t belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.
449
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.
450
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
451
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
452
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
453
The women’s movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
454
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
455
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
456
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
457
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
458
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
459
There are many women who came before me who didn’t really have the same opportunities that I have had. That’s why I always wanted to be a great ambassador – not only today’s generation – but for the women who really didn’t have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
460
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
461
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
462
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Francois Truff
aut
463
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood.
464
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
465
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.
466
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
467
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
468
Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
469
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
470
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
471
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
472
As women gain weight, they start judging themselves. But who cares! Embrace what you have. Say, ‘Belly, you might be poking out today, but I’m going to choose to love you and nurture you.’
473
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
474
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
475
Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that’s not the way men work.
Rachel Perry
476
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
477
I gotta be honest with you. I’m kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?
478
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
479
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
480
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
481
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
482
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
483
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.
Jennifer Doudna
484
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
485
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
486
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
487
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
488
Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.
489
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
490
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
491
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
492
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.
493
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women – or the welfare of anyone – depending on who controls it.
494
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
495
Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Bill Copeland
496
Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
497
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
Niccolo Paganini
498
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
499
Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she’s confused about – and what I was confused about – was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn’t mean you don’t want equal rights.
500
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.
501
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
502
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
503
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
504
I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.
505
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
John Gray
506
There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions – not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.
507
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
Peter Boyle
508
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
509
I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
510
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
511
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
512
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
513
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
514
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
515
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
516
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
517
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
518
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
Valentino Garavani
519
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
520
I don’t think I’m a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.
521
On YouTube, women are not just users; they’re creators. They’re learning about business and technology, and having a voice.
522
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
523
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
524
I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I’ve met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.
525
I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!
526
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
527
The more you win, the brand of women’s cricket will go higher.
528
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
529
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
530
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
531
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
532
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
John Gray
533
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
534
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
535
You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.
536
Virginity is such a personal thing. You can’t judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they’ll love forever.
537
The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
538
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it’s minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
539
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
Archilochus
540
If you’re gay, that doesn’t mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don’t want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.
541
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
542
The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
543
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
544
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
545
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
546
Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’
547
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
548
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
549
If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
550
America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd
551
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
552
I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.
553
I also use women as a sex object; maybe I’m kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
Oliver Reed
554
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
555
Women are the real architects of society.
556
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne Bronte
557
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
558
I opened Leith’s in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros – but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,’ expensive restaurant.
559
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
560
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Fay Weldon
561
Most women don’t like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.
Stephanie Mills
562
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
563
People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it’s the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day’s game. It’s not a vacation – most guys view the road as a business trip.
564
I wanted pretty pictures of older women – women who are trying too hard but succeeding – pulling off an extreme look. What I didn’t know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.
565
If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
566
I’m bisexual. And so, you know, I’ve dated men and women.
567
Wonder Woman‘ is much more than a cartoon character. She’s fighting for truth and justice and the secret self that exists in all women and girls. There’s a moral fiber and a goodness about her that all women have.
568
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
569
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There’s something about holding that richness.
Natalie Goldberg
570
I made ‘LS4TS2’ for women, my Day 1’s, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.
571
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
572
I guess I just don’t have a talent for it, some women just aren’t the marrying kind – or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I’m one of them.
Jane Wyman
573
I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
574
There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
575
Women hold up half the sky.
576
We’ve got to get women to sit at the table.
577
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.
578
Women have a predestination to suffering.
579
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
580
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
581
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we’ll take up, and the more we’ll have to be reckoned with.
582
I hate women because they always know where things are.
583
I grew up in a time when women didn’t really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny – because it’s powerful; it’s a threat.
584
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Buchner
585
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
586
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
587
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
588
I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.
589
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
590
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
591
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
592
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
593
Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
594
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
595
If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it’s that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.
596
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.
597
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
598
I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
599
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.
600
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
601
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
602
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Beatrice Wood
603
Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.
604
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
605
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
606
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
607
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
608
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?
609
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
610
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
611
I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
612
I liked women as a shape to dress.
Gianni Versace
613
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
614
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Queen Victoria
615
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
616
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
617
I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.
618
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
619
I dress for women and I undress for men.
620
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
621
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
622
I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can’t have all of them for myself.
623
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque
624
Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
625
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
626
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
627
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
628
I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.
629
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw
630
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
631
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
632
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
633
I had it all – money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want – but it didn’t give my life meaning.
634
We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
635
As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience – experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.
636
Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations.
637
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
638
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
639
I think the most important thing… is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.
640
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
641
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
642
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
643
I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‘Let me order.’ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‘Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.’ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.
644
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
645
A women’s greatest asset is her beauty.
Alex Comfort
646
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
647
I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.
648
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
649
I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.
650
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
651
You have to be very careful with women friends.
Heather Locklear
652
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
653
I know my name will always be linked with women.
654
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
655
Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent
656
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
657
I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn’t do, and I believed that.
Stephanie Allain
658
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
659
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
660
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She’s just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
Pat Benatar
661
Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women.
662
Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we’re all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we’re perfect. Frankly, I’m not perfect.
663
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria
664
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
665
666
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr
667
The men and women of the Greatest Generation answered the call to serve; whether at home or abroad, they defended the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today.
668
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
669
All women’s issues are to some degree men’s issues and all men’s issues are to some degree women’s issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
670
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
671
Pro-life feminists believe in women and their ability. Pro-choice feminists only see women as weak and something to be exploited.
672
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
William Allen White
673
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
674
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
675
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
676
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
677
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
678
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
679
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
680
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
681
When anything goes, it’s women who lose.
682
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
683
I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
684
I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
685
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
686
There’s no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
687
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
688
I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
689
We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – we’re renegades.
690
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
691
As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.
Merle Dandridge
692
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
693
My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
694
I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
695
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
696
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
697
If it wasn’t for women, I wouldn’t be here. I’m a mamma’s boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.
698
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
699
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster‘ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
700
Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers’ grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation’s character.
701
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
702
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
703
Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world.
Richard Armour
704
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
705
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
706
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
707
Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
708
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
709
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
710
Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.
711
I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
712
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
713
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.
714
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
715
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
716
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
717
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Alphonse Karr
718
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.
719
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
720
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
721
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
O. Henry
722
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
723
Women are always told, ‘You’re not going to make it, its too difficult, you can’t do that, don’t enter this competition, you’ll never win it,’ – they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
724
I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.
725
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.