Women Quotes

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

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 Eisenhowe

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

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

Fran Lebowitz

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

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

Barbara Bush

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

The Book of Joshua 6: 21

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess

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

Rebecca West

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

Ronald Reagan

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Bill Cosby

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan

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

The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin P. Adams

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

James Thurbe

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993