Motivational Quotes

Women

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Women

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

Crowne, John

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Wickham, Anna

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Woolf, Virginia

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to denythe fact that I love to be with men.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

10.

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

11.

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

Reik, Theodor

12.

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

Gillman, Charlotte P.

13.

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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

West, Rebecca

18.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Sharman, Helen

20.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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

Byron, Lord

23.

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

24.

Men never remember, but women never forget.

25.

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

Greer, Germaine

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

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Lynes, Russell

29.

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

Astell, Mary

30.

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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We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest -- blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says -- Work; and to us it says -- Seem! To you it says -- As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says -- Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Dekker, Thomas

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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Euripides

42.

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

Lasch, Christopher

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Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Laing, Dilys

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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.

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I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?

Madonna