Women Quotes

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women"

Voltaire, Writer

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors"

Voltaire, Writer

"I hate women because they always know where things are"

Voltaire, Writer

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness"

Victor Hugo, Author

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution"

Victor Hugo, Author

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half"

Plato, Philosopher

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have"

Ronald Reagan, President

"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke"

Willa Cather, Author

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women"

Henry James, Writer

"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals"

Henry James, Writer

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians"

John F. Kennedy, President

"When women go wrong, men go right after them"

Mae West, Actress

"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him"

Mae West, Actress

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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