Motivational Quotes

Women

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

Best Quotes about Women

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Dekker, Thomas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Meir, Golda

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Porter, O. Henry

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aristophanes

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

Feather, William

10.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Boccaccio, Giovanni

11.

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

Burchill, Julie

12.

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

West, Rebecca

13.

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

Meir, Golda

14.

Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Astell, Mary

18.

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

Gray, John

19.

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

20.

A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Reagan, Nancy

21.

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Vanbrugh, Sir John

22.

Men and women, women and men; it will never work.

Jong, Erica

23.

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

24.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

Duras, Marguerite

26.

Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

Diderot, Denis

27.

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

Euripides

28.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Herzen, Alexander

29.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

Dunne, Finley Peter

30.

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

Cartland, Barbara

31.

Woman is the Nigger of the World.

Lennon, John

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

Nin, Anais

35.

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

Harge, Derrick

36.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Brookner, Anita

38.

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

39.

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

40.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Rooney, Mickey

43.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Hoban, Russell

44.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Antrim, Minna

46.

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.

47.

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

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

Gray, John

49.

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

50.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Renoir, Pierre Auguste