About Women Quotes

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I think all women have some sort of beauty in them.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

Women power is a formidable force.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.