Women Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"The only really happy folk are married women and single men"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy"

Lee Grant, Actress

"No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

George W. Bush, President

"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"I dress for women and I undress for men"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

John McGahern, Writer

"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Women are made to be loved, not understood"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Women should be obscene and not heard"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being"

Jane Austen, Writer

"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out"

George Eliot, Author

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry"

O. Henry, Writer

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