Women Quotes

51. The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

^{George William Curtis}

52. Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.

^{Kathleen Turner}

53. 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}

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

^{Ambrose Bierce}

55. Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

^{Bernard Williams}

56. People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.

^{Joan Jett}

57. I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

^{George Eliot}

58. When women go wrong, men go right after them.

^{Mae West}

59. Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.

^{Lucille Ball}

60. Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

^{Daphne du Maurier}

61. Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

^{Robert Frost}

62. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

^{Arthur Conan Doyle}

63. I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

^{Andrew Cuomo}

64. You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

^{Billy Sunday}

65. This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

^{Henny Youngman}

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

^{Josh Billings}

67. Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

^{Louisa May Alcott}

68. The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so arehorses.

^{Charlotte Perkins Gilman}

69. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

^{William Shakespeare}

70. All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.

^{Eddie Bernice Johnson}

71. Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred.

^{Hugh Grant}

72. It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

^{Margaret Thatcher}

73. Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

^{Henri Frederic Amiel}

74. A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

^{Coco Chanel}

75. Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

^{Camryn Manheim}

76. Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

^{George Sand}

77. Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

^{Brigitte Bardot}

78. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

^{H. L. Mencken}

79. The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

^{Marguerite Duras}

80. Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

^{E. M. Forster}

81. Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

^{Candace Bushnell}

82. Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There’s something about holding that richness.

^{Natalie Goldberg}

83. Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

^{Barbra Streisand}

84. I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

^{Heinrich Heine}

85. I’ll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I’ll always be a feminist.

^{Courtney Love}

86. Women don’t realize how powerful they are.

^{Judith Light}

87. For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.

^Juvenal

88. A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

^{Minna Antrim}

89. Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

^{Emma Bonino}

90. Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

^{Lord Byron}

91. Women are made to be loved, not understood.

^{Oscar Wilde}

92. When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

^{Benjamin Spock}

93. We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – we’re renegades.

^{Lisa Bonet}

94. Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

^{Michael Hutchence}

95. One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

^{James Howell}

96. I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

^{Dylan Moran}

97. Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.

^{Sidney Sheldon}

98. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

^{John Barrymore}

99. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

^{Katharine Hepburn}

100. Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

^{Gary Oldman}

101. I think women are excellent social critics.

^{Laurie Anderson}