Women Quotes

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Erica Jong

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

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

Franklin P. Jones

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If worry were an effective weight - Loss program, women would be invisible.

Nancy Drew

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

The Book of Joshua 6: 21

Women are the glue that hold our day - To - Day world together.

Anna Quindlen

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Susan B. Anthony

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

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

Margaret Fulle

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Ronald Reagan

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Rosanne Ba

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

Margaret Mead

Women have served all these centuries as looking - Glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty - Two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Bill Cosby

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch, Morals

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - - Especially the legal kind.

Kay Ingram

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

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

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

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