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Women Quotes
The most loved quotes on women, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
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.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Women are women, and hurray for that.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
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.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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.'
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
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.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
I am my own woman.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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.
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.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
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.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
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.
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Women are the real architects of society.
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 in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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.
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.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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.
Women hold up half the sky.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Women have this obsession with shoes.
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
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.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
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.
I always play women I would date.
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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 don't realize how powerful they are.