Women Quotes

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

~ Mae West

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

~ Virginia Woolf

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

~ William Shakespeare

A witty woman is a treasure, a witty beauty is a power.

~ George Meredith

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.

~ Jessica Valenti

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

~ Louis De Bernières

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

~ Charles Bukowski

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

~ Charles Bukowski

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

~ Lemony Snicket

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

~ Gillian Flynn

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

~ Barbra Streisand

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

~ Paulo Coelho

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

~ Virginia Woolf

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.

~ N.h. Kleinbaum

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

~ Rebecca West

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than w

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

~ C. Joybell C.

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

~ Sena Jeter Naslund

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

~ Zadie Smith

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

~ Alice Walker

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

~ Khaled Hosseini

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

~ Dorothy Parker

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

~ Virginia Woolf

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

~ Margaret Sanger

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

~ Robert Jordan

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

~ Wilkie Collins

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

~ Gilda Radner

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

~ Saddam Hussein

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

~ Jane Austen

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.

~ Laurie Anderson

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

~ Thomas Hardy

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

~ Orson Scott Card