Women Quotes

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

"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

"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

"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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Lee Grant, Actress

"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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Marcel Proust, Author

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

Rebecca West, Author

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them"

Megan Fox, 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 latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I think women are too valuable to be in combat"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

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