Women Quotes

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians"

Georges Pompidou, Statesman

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about"

Cybill Shepherd, Actress

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met"

Farrah Fawcett, Actress

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"America is a land where men govern, but women rule"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious"

Daniel Mainwaring, Novelist

"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future"

Ron Kind, Politician

"All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education"

Jane Rule, Author

"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves"

Leah Ward Sears, Judge

"I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles"

Fred Ward, Actor

"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems"

Eva Longoria, Actress

"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"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

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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