Motivational Quotes

Women

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Women

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

Millet, Kate

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

West, Mae

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

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Aristotle

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Paglia, Camille

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Dekker, Thomas

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Thatcher, Margaret

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Gray, John

10.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Weininger, Otto

11.

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

12.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

Gray, John

13.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Reik, Theodor

15.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

16.

A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can't. Trapped in this well-built trap, A Woman blames her mother for luring her into it, while ensuring that her own daughter never gets out; she recoils from the idea of sisterhood and doesn't believe women have friends, because it probably means something unnatural, and anyhow, A Woman is afraid of women. She's a male construct, and she's afraid women will deconstruct her. She's afraid of everything, because she can't change. Thighs forever thin and shining hair and shining teeth and she's my Mom, too, all seven percent of her. And she never grows old.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

17.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Cartland, Barbara

18.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Crowne, John

21.

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

Harge, Derrick

22.

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

23.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

French, Marilyn

24.

Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.

Qur'an

25.

The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.

West, Rebecca

26.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Stark, Freya

27.

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

Meir, Golda

28.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

Feather, William

29.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Chanel, Coco

30.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Wycherley, William

31.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Earhart, Amelia

32.

Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

33.

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

34.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

36.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Dior, Christian

37.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Billings, Josh

38.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

Meir, Golda

41.

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

42.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

44.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Farquhar, George

46.

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Vanbrugh, Sir John

47.

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

Sills, Beverly

48.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Dworkin, Andrea

49.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Diderot, Denis

50.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

Gray, John