1,010 Quotes Regarding Women


The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George Burns

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham

Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
Alice Walker

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice Walker

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Stendhal