Women Quotes

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurbe

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab": Bach is Dead

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Ogden Nash

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women - Of all classes - Detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion - Mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

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

Margaret Mead

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

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

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Katherine Hepburn

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

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher Von Braun

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

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

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

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

Margaret Mead

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

Because the women are watching.

T. E. Lawrence, ... when asked, Why do men go to war?

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

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

Richard Benne