Women Quotes

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does."

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."

"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."

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

"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."

"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."

"Birth control is an important part of women's healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications."

"Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy."

"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."

"Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women."

"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."

"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."

"Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it."

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

"Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful."

"Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness."

"Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps."

"Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others."

"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."

"Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent."

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

"For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women."

"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."

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

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"High heels empower women in a way."

"Honor your daughters. They are honorable."

"How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me!"

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."

"I always open doors for women. It's just good manners."

"I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world."

"I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it."

"I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them."

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

"I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

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

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

"I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown."