Famous Quotes

"Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Mary Wollstonecraft

• "The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

• "In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."

• "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

• "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."

• "Virtue can only flourish among equals."