Top 100 Women Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best women quotes ever written, picked out of the full women archive on QuoteForever. You will find Amy Dickinson, Frederick Lenz, Clare Boothe Luce and Clarissa Pinkola Estes among them.

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I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman ... - Sharon Stone 1

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

2

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

3

A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

4

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

5

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

6

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

7

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

8

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

9

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never ... - Henry David Thoreau 10

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

11

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

12

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

13

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

14

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

15

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

16

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

17

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

18

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

19

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

20

Women are always beautiful.

21

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

22

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

23

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

24

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

25

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

26

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

27

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

28

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

29

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

30

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

31

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

32

Eve is a twofold mystery.

33

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

34

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

35

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

36

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

37

The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

38

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

39

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

40

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

41

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

42

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

43

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

44

The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.

45

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

46

The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

47

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

48

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

49

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

50

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

51

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

52

Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.

53

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

54

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

55

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

56

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

57

A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

58

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

59

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

60

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

61

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

62

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

63

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

64

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

65

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

66

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

67

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

68

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

69

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

70

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

71

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

72

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

73

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

74

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

75

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

76

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

77

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

78

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

79

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

80

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

81

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

82

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

83

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

84

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

85

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

86

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

87

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

88

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

89

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

90

Look twice before you leap.

91

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

92

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

93

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

94

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

95

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

96

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

97

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

98

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

99

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

100

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

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