To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I am my own woman.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

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

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Women hold up half the sky.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

I always play women I would date.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women are the real architects of society.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.