Women Quotes

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Women are always being tested... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

Carey Bowman

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

Elayne Boosle

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

Henry Louis Mencken

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.

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

Katharine Hepburn

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Richard Benne

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women? merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson