Woman Quotes

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

~ Shirley Bassey

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

~ Emily Carr

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

~ Rod Blagojevich

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

~ Marilyn Monroe

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

~ Marilyn Monroe

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

~ Eva Longoria

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

~ Jean Reno

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

~ Oleg Cassini

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

~ Valentino Rossi

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

~ Jimmy Dean

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

~ Elbert Hubbard

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

~ Phillips Brooks

It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.

~ Shirley Chisholm

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

~ Virginia Woolf

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

~ Oscar De La Renta

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

~ Leigh Hunt

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

~ Henny Youngman

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

~ H. L. Mencken

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

~ Jonathan Swift

Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman I think she's amazing.

~ Evangeline Lilly

I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.

~ Daisy Ridley

Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the embodiment of Wonder Woman. She is so beautiful and powerful, but kind and generous and thoughtful. She's just an amazing person.

~ Patty Jenkins

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

~ Ehud Olmert

I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

~ Bat For Lashes

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

~ Selenis Leyva

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

~ Chanakya

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

~ Jessica Valenti

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

~ Gloria Steinem

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

~ Mary Mcdonnell

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

~ Phillips Brooks

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

~ Michele Bachmann

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

~ Tom Hiddleston