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

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

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

Mel Gibson, Actor

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Richard Burton, Actor

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house"

Rod Stewart, Musician

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

Christian Bale, Actor

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"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

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am"

Tina Turner, Musician

"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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

Ben Jonson, Poet

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her"

Francis I

"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action"

Mae West, Actress

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