Women Quotes

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul"

"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce"

"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure"

George W. Bush, President

"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"What I've learned is you treat women right"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future"

Barack Obama, President

"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Strong women only marry weak men"

Bette Davis, Actress

"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours"

Grover Cleveland, President

"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure"

Bob Geldof, Actor

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