Woman Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women (Page 2)

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

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"Dress shabbily, and they remember the dress; dress impeccably, and they remember the woman"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"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 a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers"

Herodotus, Historian

"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

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

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"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

"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"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

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

Minna Antrim, Writer

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

Francis I

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty"

Victor Hugo, Author

"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

"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

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

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

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

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

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

Mae West, Actress

"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

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

Jane Austen, Writer

"A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

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

Christopher Morley, Author

"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

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

Agatha Christie, Writer

"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

"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world"

Betty Grable, Actress

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