Women Quotes

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

~ Steve King

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

~ Iris Murdoch

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

~ Oscar Wilde

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

~ E. W. Howe

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

~ Morris Chestnut

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

~ Eva Herzigova

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

~ Anthony Burgess

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

~ Jenna Mccarthy

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

~ Libba Bray

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

~ Laura Schlessinger

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

~ Rosalind Wiseman

I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.

~ Jodie Evans

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

~ Helen Fisher

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

~ Henry Rollins

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

~ Francis Bacon

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

~ Alanis Morissette

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.

~ Gillian Flynn

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

~ Rosamund Pike

There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.

~ Lauren Groff

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

~ Rebecca De Mornay

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

~ Cedric Richmond

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

~ Bob Hoskins

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

~ Dave Thomas

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

~ Erma Bombeck

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.

~ Kyle Hill

I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

~ Sonakshi Sinha

For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

~ Carl Hagelin

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

~ Evelyn Lauder

I think that our culture is doing something to women - let's say women in their late 30s and 40s and probably even 50s, - where they really are expected to keep this insane level of fitness and youth. I find that just a real waste of women's lives. I really do think that.

~ Sarah Dunn

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

~ Bill Copeland

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

~ Steve Buyer

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

~ Ingvar Kamprad

Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

~ Susan Wojcicki

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

~ Morena Baccarin

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

~ Adrienne Bailon

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

~ Steven Pressfield

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

~ Nora Ephron