Woman Quotes

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I am woman, hear me bitch"

Craig Bruce

"In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman"

Craig Bruce

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all"

Anais Nin, Author

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself"

Anais Nin, Author

"There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"Why can't a woman be more like a man?"

Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist

"When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged"

Maria Callas, Musician

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor"

James Lane Allen, Author

"I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man"

Sean Connery, Actor

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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