Woman Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women (Page 4)

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women"

"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face"

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle"

George Burns, Comedian

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh"

Victor Hugo, Author

"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands"

Lord Byron, Poet

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