Motivational Quotes

Women

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Women

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Murdoch, Iris

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Byron, Lord

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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Proust, Marcel

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Lawrence, D. H.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Duras, Marguerite

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Smith, Lillian

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Woman is the Nigger of the World.

Lennon, John

10.

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Bogan, Louise

11.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Wycherley, William

12.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Berger, John

13.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

James, Henry

15.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Maciver, Robert M.

20.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Dekker, Thomas

21.

A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

Stein, Ruthie

22.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Geraldy, Paul

23.

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

Aristophanes

24.

Men never remember, but women never forget.

25.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

26.

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

Millet, Kate

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

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

Reik, Theodor

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

Mead, Margaret

32.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Antrim, Minna

33.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Sade, Marquis De

35.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Delillo, Don

36.

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

37.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Fuller, Margaret

38.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Astor, Lady Nancy

39.

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

Earhart, Amelia

40.

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

41.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Rankin, Jeannette

43.

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

44.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Sharman, Helen

47.

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

48.

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

Feather, William

49.

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

Earhart, Amelia

50.

Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

Solanis, Valerie