1,010 Quotes Regarding Women


I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Ambrose Bierce

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Hillary Clinton

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Desiderius Erasmus

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner