Famous Quotes

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

More quotes about Women

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

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

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

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

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

• "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

• "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

• "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."