Woman Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women (Page 6)

"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

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is"

Tina Turner, Musician

"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster"

George Eliot, Author

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse"

James Joyce, Novelist

"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man"

Adam Smith, Economist

"No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"A woman has the age she deserves"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

Buddha, Leader

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

Jessamyn West, Author

"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

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