Motivational Quotes

Women

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Women

There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.

Sills, Beverly

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.

Thatcher, Margaret

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Millet, Kate

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Friedan, Betty

The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

Dietrich, Marlene

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Mcginley, Phyllis

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is very little difference between men and women in space.

Sharman, Helen

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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Greer, Germaine

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Byron, Lord

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If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.

Proverb, Italian

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When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Maciver, Robert M.

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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Jong, Erica

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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Euripides

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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Duras, Marguerite

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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Oliphant, Margaret

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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Astell, Mary

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Hoagland, Edward

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Archard, Marcel

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They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.

Field, Kate

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The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Grable, Betty

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Eve is a twofold mystery.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Antrim, Minna

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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Earhart, Amelia

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I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Loos, Anita

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

Festa, Linda

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It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.

James, Selma

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Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Harge, Derrick

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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

Austen, Jane

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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

James, Henry

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Proust, Marcel

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Aristophanes

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

Meir, Golda

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.

Welles, Orson

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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Antrim, Minna

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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Millet, Kate

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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.

Crowne, John

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Wilde, Oscar

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Wilde, Oscar

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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.

Sade, Marquis De