Women Quotes

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

~ Marcel Proust

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

~ Plato

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

~ Gloria Steinem

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

~ Caitlin Moran

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

~ Erica Jong

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

~ Tupac Shakur

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

~ Gloria Steinem

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

~ Adrienne Rich

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

~ John Steinbeck

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

~ Cher

As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.What has happened?' the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby carriage along the sidewalk.Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well,' replied the man; 'and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.'Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?'I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.

~ L. Frank Baum

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

~ Iris Murdoch

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.

~ Shannon L. Alder

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Only cowards torture women.

~ Patricia Briggs

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

~ Susan B. Anthony

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

~ Charlaine Harris

Women have always been spies.

~ Harriet Rubin

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

~ Thomas Hardy

We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not theone.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

~ Greg Behrendt

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of w

~ Nora Ephron

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

~ Nancy E. Turner

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

~ Oscar Wilde

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

~ William Golding

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

~ Stephen King

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

~ William Faulkner

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

~ Salvador Dalí

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

~ Gillian Flynn

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

~ Bethany Hamilton

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

~ Suze Orman

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

~ Freddie Mercury