Women Quotes

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.