Top 100 Women Are Quotes
#1. The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.
Linda Sunshine
#2. I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
Jodi Picoult
#4. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan
#5. Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery.
Susan Wingate
#6. We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.
Jane Swisshelm
#7. Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.
Michael Kors
#9. In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.
Caitlin Doughty
#10. Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"
Rita Rudner
#12. The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians.
Bonnie J. Morris
#13. How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
Christine De Pizan
#14. Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.
Gelett Burgess
#15. Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age ... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.
Tracy Letts
#16. Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
Ovid
#17. Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
Bob Newhart
#18. It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
Christopher Buckley
#19. The Church and the world and women are crying for men, men who are developing their capacity and talents, who are willing to work and make sacrifices, who will help others achieve happiness and salvation.
D. Todd Christofferson
#20. Idea at play here is that of "morality." When young women are taught about morality, there's not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens
Jessica Valenti
#21. I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#22. Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.
Jessica Valenti
#23. People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
Marina Abramovic
#24. I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
Meg Tilly
#25. I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.
Zendaya
#26. The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.
Woody Allen
#27. There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day
#28. Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
Patti Stanger
#29. Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.
Christopher Dines
#30. It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
Imogen Poots
#31. Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves
Ariel Levy
#32. There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.
Sandra Fluke
#33. Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
Carrie Coon
#34. Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand.
Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.
Abdal Hakim Murad
#35. Some say that happy women are immaterial.
Mina Loy
#36. Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
Sheryl Sandberg
#38. Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.
Qiu Jin
#39. It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
Camryn Manheim
#40. Sometimes, women are so internalized and consumed with their own lives that they can't see the bleeding hearts in front of them.
Crystal Jones
#41. Strong women are like laptops.
There are highly functional, indoor and outdoor.
But you have to keep them charged with love!
Manoj Vaz
#42. I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#43. The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.
Sarah Gavron
#44. Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
Warren Beatty
#45. Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.
Carmen Boullosa
#46. You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
Danai Gurira
#47. As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.
Amy Richards
#48. As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#49. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam Hussein
#50. Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
Sophia Bush
#51. All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#52. Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino
#53. Chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies
Honore De Balzac
#54. The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#55. Women are equal because they are not different any more.
Erich Fromm
#56. For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
Kajol
#57. Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
Helen Fisher
#58. Whereas women are most turned on by a man's depth of presence,
men are most turned on by a woman's radiance and energy:
how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.
David Deida
#59. When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Nawal El Saadawi
#60. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
Oscar Wilde
#61. The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women.
Michelle Alexander
#62. Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#63. Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
#64. Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently
Sarah MacLean
#65. Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.
Jill Johnston
#66. But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
Anna Quindlen
#67. Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
Sinclair Lewis
#68. No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.
Cokie Roberts
#69. The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time ... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
Lawrence Durrell
#70. It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.
Maya Angelou
#71. Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
#72. Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
Gail Collins
#73. Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
Sheila Rowbotham
#74. What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
Grantly Dick-Read
#77. In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#79. The day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#80. [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.
Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks
#82. I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
Giacomo Casanova
#83. You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting
old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new
wine, good only before being uncorked.
Eloisa James
#84. Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent you. Women are not a homogenous group who all get together to decide how or who they will be.
Anonymouse
#85. It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed.
Margot Wallstrom
#86. I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why ... some women are just funny like that.
Cecelia Ahern
#87. Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.
Jackie Collins
#88. In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
Angela Carter
#89. All women are natural born espionage agents.
Eddie Cantor
#90. I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.
Jessica Valenti
#91. women are not thinking about 'having it all,' they're worried about losing it all - their jobs, their children's health, their families' financial stability - because of the regular conflicts that arise between being a good employee and a responsible parent."34
Sheryl Sandberg
#93. Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
Mae West
#94. Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!
CeCe McDonald
#95. I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.
Nell Leyshon
#96. Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.
Joyce Banda
#97. We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
Barbara Mikulski
#98. O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!
Seneca.
#99. Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known
and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't
separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate
their human and dog natures.
Jeet Thayil
#100. Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore De Balzac
