Women Quotes

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

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

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Women don't like violence,But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words.[Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes WortDer Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

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

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.