Woman Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

Sophocles, Author

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

Olin Miller, Writer

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)"

O. Henry, Writer

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do"

Christian Bale, Actor

"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman"

Richard Burton, Actor

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes"

Robert Frost, Poet

"A man's only as old as the woman he feels"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality"

Og Mandino, Author

"Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring"

Mae West, Actress

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can"

Jane Austen, Writer

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