Women Quotes

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

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

The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

If a woman was successful, she wasn't helping other women.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.