Woman Quotes

"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

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her"

Agatha Christie, Writer

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

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"

Anais Nin, Author

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot"

John Lennon, Musician

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose

"And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them"

Ernestine L. Rose

"The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures"

Kate Moss, Model

"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can"

Blair Underwood, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Like any woman, I worry about my body"

Helena Christensen, Model

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?"

Vida Blue, Athlete

"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait"

Diego Rivera, Artist

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false"

Nance O'Neil

"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

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