Women Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Katharine Hepburn

Simone de Beauvoir

G. K. Chesterton

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Louis XIV of France

Samuel Richardson

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

Katharine Hepburn

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

G. K. Chesterton

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Louis XIV of France

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything —
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is waiting for the spring.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion that until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good they will for evil, if they advance not knowledge they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

By what toil and fatigue and patience and strife and the beautiful law of growth has all this been wrought? These things have not come of themselves. They could not have occurred except as the great movement for women has brought them out and about. They are part of the eternal order, and they have come to stay. Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves — instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeanette Rankin

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.