Famous Quotes
- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
- George William Curtis on Women
- The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
- Kerry Washington on Women
- The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
- Samuel Richardson on Women
- The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
- Andrea Dworkin on Women
- The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
- Adrienne Rich on Women
- The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
- Nora Ephron on Women
- The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland on Women
- The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
- E. O. Wilson on Women
- The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Women
- The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Women
- The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- George Bernard Shaw on Women
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- Anne Lamott on Women
- The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
- Gloria Steinem on Women
- The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
- Julie Burchill on Women
- The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Women
- The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
- George Eliot on Women
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Virginia Woolf on Women
- The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
- Emma Goldman on Women
- 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.
- Marguerite Duras on Women
- 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.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Women
- The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
- A. N. Wilson on Women
- The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
- Jessica Savitch on Women
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
- Charles Baudelaire on Women
- The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Rebecca West on Women
- The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Women
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington on Women
- The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
- The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
- George W. Bush on Women
- The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Women
- The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
- Wilson Mizner on Women
- The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Women
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
- Honore De Balzac on Women
- The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
- Ashley Montagu on Women
- The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
- Pope Benedict XVI on Women
- The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
- Sheryl Sandberg on Women
- The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
- Sargent Shriver on Women
- The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
- Shirley Knight on Women
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- H. L. Mencken on Women
- The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.
- The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Women
- The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget on Women
- The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
- Jon Meacham on Women
- The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
- Steve Harvey on Women
- The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women
- The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
- Oscar De La Renta on Women
- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Women
- The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
- Phyllis Diller on Women
- The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women
- The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
- Thomas R. Dewar on Women
- The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
- Tyra Banks on Women
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