Top 59 Average Woman Quotes
#1. It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward
#2. I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman ... is a despot; the average man is a serf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#3. The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.
Kenneth Cole
#4. The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.
Whitney Thompson
#6. When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.
Sherri Shepherd
#7. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
Mark Twain
#8. Love is Beautiful [10w]
Even an average woman becomes beautiful when she's in love.
Beryl Dov
#9. I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
Debra Winger
#10. The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#11. There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.
Mari Sandoz
#12. The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.
Frederick Lenz
#13. The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.
H.L. Mencken
#14. The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I'll never be an average woman.
Charlaine Harris
#15. The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
Montgomery Clift
#16. No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H.L. Mencken
#17. Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.
Nicola Sturgeon
#18. Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.
Lisa Leslie
#19. If there is one thing that the average woman detests more than another, it is an entirely reasonable man.
R. Austin Freeman
#20. The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Elbert Hubbard
#21. One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
Sherwood Anderson
#22. While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward.
John F. Kennedy
#23. I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.
Francisco Costa
#25. In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
Stephen Leacock
#26. Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.
Robert Winston
#27. I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.
Kate Winslet
#28. Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
Gertrude Atherton
#29. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H.L. Mencken
#30. Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
Theodore Kaczynski
#32. I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.
Allison Tolman
#33. I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything,
Leo Burnett
#34. I wasn't afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you have to be careful with an upset woman.
J.C. Nelson
#36. Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.
Willa Holland
#37. The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.
Honore Daumier
#38. People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
#39. In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.
Tom Golisano
#40. Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.
John D. Voelker
#41. The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.
Marie Helvin
#42. If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
D. Elton Trueblood
#43. I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy.
Gillian Flynn
#44. A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
Elizabeth George
#45. I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.
Junot Diaz
#47. Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
John Mackey
#48. The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich
#49. A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping wedding guests, unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experiences of every average man and woman.
Thomas Hardy
#50. The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Nancy Gibbs
#51. There is no happiness for any individual, man or woman, who does not dwell within the broad zone of average. Pandora
Lisa Kleypas
#52. Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger
#53. I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47
Stephanie Coontz
#55. Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
Stendhal
#56. A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.
Howard Zinn
#57. I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Sherman Alexie
#58. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
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