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

Mel Gibson, Actor

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Knut Hamsun, Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Christian Bale, Actor

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

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"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

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

Ben Jonson, Poet

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

Richard Burton, Actor

"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

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

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

O. Henry, Writer

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"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

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

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"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

"When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"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

"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

"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

"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense"

Jonathan Swift, 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

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

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

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

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