- Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Grace Kelly
- You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong
- Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world.
Richard Armour
- In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Hillary Clinton
- Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem
- Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
Camille Paglia
- Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen
- Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent
- In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce
- There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis
- Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
Jessica Savitch
- It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr
- I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
Evita Peron
- Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Barbra Streisand
- Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken
- I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
Jennifer Lopez
- Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker
- I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
Margaret Thatcher
- Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
- But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
- I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You’re trying to pack a lot in.
Christine Baranski
- Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi
- I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
- I’m surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
Christie Hefner
- Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn
- Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
- Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
Isabel Allende
- Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
- They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce
- If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
- If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
- Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
Malala Yousafzai
- Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Dorothy Day
- Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
- The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Germaine Greer
- 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
- Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
Sheryl Sandberg
- Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
Jada Pinkett Smith
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
- Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we’ll take up, and the more we’ll have to be reckoned with.
Roseanne Barr
- What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
- When anything goes, it’s women who lose.
Camille Paglia
- Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
Andrea Jung
- All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
- In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Helen Reddy
- I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel
- Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
Anna Held
- A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Barbra Streisand