Woman Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women (Page 5)

"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity"

"A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you"

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

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

Mae West, Actress

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of"

Mae West, Actress

"A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love"

Mae West, Actress

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair"

Ovid, Poet

"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment"

Jane Austen, Writer

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage"

Jane Austen, Writer

"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels"

Jane Austen, Writer

"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her"

George Washington, President

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