Women Quotes

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

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

Margaret Mead

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

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

Katherine Hepburn

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

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Ovid

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

Horace Mann

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

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

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Scarface

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Unknown

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

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

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin P. Adams

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

May Sarton

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

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

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

James Thurbe

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

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichle

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

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

Margaret Mead