Women Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

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

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached"

Mary Astell, Writer

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Robin Williams, Comedian

"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

"Women are made to be loved, not understood"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women should be obscene and not heard"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"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

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"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

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

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"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 like my wine like my women - ready to pass out"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments"

George Washington, President

"Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"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

"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

"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

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

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

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"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