Woman Quotes

"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
-Henry David Thoreau

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
-Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman once drove me to drink, and I never had the decency to thank her."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks."
-Anne Frank

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Woman was God's second mistake."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat."
-Oscar Wilde

"A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female."
-Oscar Wilde

"...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
-Oscar Wilde

"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
-Oscar Wilde

"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
-Rita Mae Brown

"I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music."
-John F. Kennedy

"There's a great woman behind every idiot."
-John Lennon

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."
-William Shakespeare

"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?"
-M. C. Escher

"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
-William Shakespeare

"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
-Betty Friedan

"A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children."
-Betty Friedan

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."
-Betty Friedan

"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
-Booker T. Washington

"Every woman knows all about everything."
-Rudyard Kipling

"The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept."
-Isak Dinesen

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool."
-Rudyard Kipling

"He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman."
-Jacopo Sannazaro

"Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
-Walt Disney