Women Quotes

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, a...

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like wom...

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks th...

If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.

Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think m...

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look...

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy...

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou...

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what y...

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

But there is a beauty every girl has—agift from God, as pure as the sunlight,and as sacred as life. ...

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who can...

I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the ...

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives h...

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent....

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautif...

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they w...

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'...

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta ...

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think...

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important le...

I like simple men and complicated women.

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was ...

I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big ...

I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay because it...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women p...

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all bec...

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

What I feel now doesn't matter at all? But at what point am I entitled to say to myself, what I am f...

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Kn...

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something abou...

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[On marriage and permanent attach

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still t...

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and wom...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a trai...

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult...

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better quali...

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story ...

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be...

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double p...

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they ...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

Procrastination is the thief of time.

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark cor...

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on ...

For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in...

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. I...

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the publ...

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all found...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a cert...

Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a 'yes' and 'no', and 'an...

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate ...

I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a p...

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ...

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices an...

Biology is destiny only for girls.

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished...

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a famil...

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in ...