Women Quotes

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

Eric Mascall

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

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

Franklin P. Adams

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

May Sarton

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

Orson Welles

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Emily Taft Douglas

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I married beneath me - All women do.

Nancy Asto

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

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

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

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

Because the women are watching.

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

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