Top 100 Best Women Quotes
#1. All the best women are married
all the handsome men are gay
Robbie Williams
#2. Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
Mia Hamm
#3. She did, she really told her. She was pretty scary, actually,"
"The best women always are, love; you don't get to my age without realizing that.
Gil McNeil
#4. Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
Nicola Sturgeon
#5. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Camille Paglia
#7. I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.
Jenna Lyons
#8. Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
#9. A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
Fay Weldon
#10. I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#11. The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
Joyce Banda
#12. There are lots of things to like about being Eastern Orthodox - incense, liturgies, all the baklava you can eat - but you know what I like best? None of that stupid 'women's ministry' stuff.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#13. Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.
Natsuo Kirino
#14. I believe the best way to honor the past and future of women's rights is by getting shit done.
Sophia Amoruso
#15. Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#16. Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#17. If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.
Henry Adams
#18. 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.
Andrea Dworkin
#19. They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn't know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman wanted to have one, the best thing you could do was get it over with.
Chelsea Cain
#20. I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
James F. Amos
#21. That in the face of smarter women it was best to beat a continuous retreat, to slash and burn one's own personal convictions before their sure-footed advance.
Gary Shteyngart
#22. Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.
Taslima Nasrin
#23. Why, after all these decades of campaign, reform, research and thought about how we can best get women into the workplace, are we so slow to pick up that the most important next step is how to get men out of it?
Annabel Crabb
#24. The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.
Sylvester Stallone
#25. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
Sheryl Sandberg
#27. The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
Oprah Winfrey
#28. The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting at the table weaving while outside the lake crashed into shore and the seagulls roosted somewhere for the night and two women stopped for a moment to watch.
Ellen Airgood
#29. Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#30. I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
Mike Newell
#31. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte
#32. By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor or the award for delivery, and would forever be an outside --an associate member at best. I looked like the other women, but I felt like less of one.
Jana Wolff
#33. Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Kate Smith
#35. Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
Shayne Ward
#36. The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
Hilda Solis
#37. Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
Samuel Smiles
#38. My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no.
Susan Estrich
#39. Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
Bertrand Tavernier
#40. We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What
M.J. Carter
#43. Let's go inside. I always find walking inside buildings has this bizarre effect on me. I immediately forget uncomfortable situations, like when tiny midget women straddle my best friend's boyfriend and face-rape him.
Frankie Rose
#44. Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
Robin Morgan
#45. My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
Tyler Perry
#46. The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.
Phyllis Schlafly
#47. A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.
Richard Peck
#48. I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
Martha Plimpton
#50. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
Nancy E. Turner
#51. We learn best by placing our 'confidence in men and women whose examples invite us to love what they love'(Robert Wilken).
Michael Dirda
#52. It is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy
Philip Kerr
#53. I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
Meryl Streep
#54. I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.
Jill Douglas
#55. We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.
Callie Khouri
#56. The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
Dan Jenkins
#57. You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
Laura Chinchilla
#58. I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.
Walker Percy
#59. Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
Gene Tierney
#60. To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.
Rosalind Miles
#61. Society was built on male power, and women's power was ... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.
Yoko Ono
#62. I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food ... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.
Dita Von Teese
#64. Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
Kyra Sedgwick
#65. Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
#66. The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
Frances Wright
#67. Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Alice Hoffman
#68. Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
Ellen Glasgow
#69. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.
Mark Greene
#70. Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali
#71. It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.
Nina Garcia
#72. Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.
Dina Powell
#73. The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there was no protection from the storm that was always brewing in her mind.
Nancy B. Brewer
#74. The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
William Zinsser
#75. The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."
Amy Dickinson
#77. Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#78. Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.
Will Young
#79. In the grand and boneheaded tradition of men who thought they knew best for their women, he had made a bad situation much worse by lying. He made a life-altering decision for me,
Hailey Edwards
#80. The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.
Joseph Mitchell
#81. [the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
Slash
#82. The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
Ray Bradbury
#83. I'm not bulletproof, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. As women, we relive our fears all the time, despite our best efforts to build each other up and truly love ourselves. It happens.
Amy Schumer
#84. Hey," he said, "you won't ever meet a man who likes women better than me. They're the best thing on the planet. And I don't just mean horizontal. Women hold the world together.
Scott Turow
#85. I believe women do the best womenswear.
Tim Gunn
#86. A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes - not elsewhere - I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
T.C. Boyle
#87. Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
#88. Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.
Barry Lyga
#89. You are a beautiful creation and were made like no one else. Your uniqueness is a pleasant gift you can give to the world if you are willing to define and live that out. And, it is the best gift you will ever give yourself.
Cynthia Mendenhall
#90. The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.
Doug Stanhope
#91. If some men think they've been outdone by a woman, well, they hit back with the best weapon they have. And that's to put you in your place and let you think you only have one use in life.
Lindsay Armstrong
#92. Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine.
Alber Elbaz
#93. I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.
Hillary Clinton
#94. So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm trees, and your highassed women, and your fancy streets, for I am going home, back to Colorado, back to the best damned town in the USA - Boulder, Colorado.
John Fante
#95. Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
Hillary Clinton
#96. The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
Marquis De Sade
#97. Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell
#98. Beautiful women like Neila are not interested in competitors. Without a doubt she would prefer a man with the means to display her beauty to its best advantage over a man whose beauty rivalled hers.
Karen Lord
#99. Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
Barack Obama
#100. I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
Billie Jean King
