Women Quotes: Empowering and Celebrating Women (Page 2)

"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood"

Charles Eastman, Author

"The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"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

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men"

William Shakespeare, 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

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"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

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

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

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

O. Henry, Writer

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

O. Henry, Writer

"It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women"

Lee Grant, Actress

"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there"

Betty Grable, Actress

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots"

Rebecca West, Author

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