Women Quotes

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I was ecstatic when 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."

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

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

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Woman was God's second mistake.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong — even stronger than men — they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle — class women do.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

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.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

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.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

I always play women I would date.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

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.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

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.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

I refused to take no for an answer.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

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.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to followintuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path mightlead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

So few grown women like their lives.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Failure is impossible.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

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.

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.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

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.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

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.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

I hate women because they always know where things are

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

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.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

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.

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Don't agonize, organize.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

God is love, but get it in writing.

Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Women react differently a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress;an Italian will kill her husband a Spaniard will kill both and a German will kill herself

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

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.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

My dream is to save them from nature.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

I will appoint men and women to the Federal judiciary who share my view of unborn children as constitutionally protected and who will unhesitatingly vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. If nominated by my party, I will select my running mate from among a list of men and women fully committed to protection of the unborn.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Frailty, thy name is woman!

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

All women are inferior to men

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.

Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

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.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

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.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

A woman is always buying something.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.