Top 100 Women Can Quotes
#1. A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them
but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.
Phyllis Chesler
#2. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.
Cinda Williams Chima
#4. Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Lynn Hecht Schafran
#5. The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially.
Elizabeth Ironside
#7. There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
Walter Reuther
#8. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
Betty Friedan
#9. Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
Martin Luther
#10. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk
#11. It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.
Kristina Schroder
#12. I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.
Marc Jacobs
#13. If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.
Santosh Kalwar
#14. It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.
Sally Ride
#15. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
Esther Vilar
#16. Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#17. With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.
Carmen Electra
#18. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
Benjamin Franklin
#20. I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
Debi Mazar
#21. Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein
#22. They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.
Malalai Joya
#23. You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
Georgette Heyer
#24. I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.
Glen Duncan
#25. Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.
Jovan Ducic
#26. A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#28. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-
He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.
Jenny Trout
#29. Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!
Helena Christensen
#30. And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#31. I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.
Lloyd Alexander
#32. Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.
Jennifer Coolidge
#33. The thought of not having a chance to kiss me again made you throw yourself off a roof. I should be more careful. I know the effect I can have on women.
Eileen Cook
#34. In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.
Harriet Tubman
#35. We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
Cameron Russell
#36. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
Nancy Astor
#38. Even if we're continually tempted to lower our guard - for love or weariness, for sympathy or kindness - we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we've achieved.
Elena Ferrante
#39. More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
Nancy Birdsall
#40. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel
#41. So I am a Socialist," said Ingleby, "but I can't stand this stuff about Old Dumbletonians. If everybody had the same State education, these things wouldn't happen." "If everybody had the same face," said Bredon, "there'd be no pretty women.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#42. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison
#43. You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
Anthony Browne
#44. The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Guy De Maupassant
#45. I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.
Carre Otis
#47. I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
Alex Pettyfer
#48. As long as you can convey that a woman is special, more valuable to you than other women are, it is enough to get her into bed.
W. Anton
#49. Now, I know some women have issues with their bodies. Maybe you've got a little extra junk in the trunk? Get over it. Doesn't matter. Naked kicks Modest's ass every single time. Men are visual. We wouldn't be fucking you if we didn't want to look at you. You can write that down if you like.
Emma Chase
#50. I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#51. Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.
Ruth Kluger
#52. Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
Joseph De Maistre
#53. Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.
Edward Schillebeeckx
#54. Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!
Ravinder Singh
#55. You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke.
Salman Rushdie
#56. This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?
Carol Gilligan
#57. Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.
It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Oscar Wilde
#58. In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.
Auliq Ice
#59. You can love two or more women at once ... but you cannot be loyal to more than one.
Herbert A. Simon
#60. Leave them," said Isabel. "Jamie can iron them himself. It's very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.
Alexander McCall Smith
#61. If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?
Keith O'Brien
#62. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
#63. Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
D.H. Lawrence
#64. Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
Norman Mailer
#65. The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.
Ann Robinson
#66. The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
Beyonce Knowles
#67. From I Knew a Woman
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Theodore Roethke
#68. I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
Victoria Beckham
#69. More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.
Jennifer Lawrence
#70. There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
Loretta Lynn
#71. When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
Christine Pelosi
#72. You can not have sex with a guy on a regular basis and not develop deeper feelings for him. It's impossible. Mother Nature didn't build women to be able to do things like that. We were designed to be monogamous and hold the family unit together.
Cat Johnson
#73. Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
Germaine Greer
#74. I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you're going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.
Joseph Altuzarra
#75. You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes ... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.
Dave Genn
#76. No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.
Manmohan Singh
#77. Strong women can be so underappreciated unless you're screaming for their help.
Robyn Carr
#78. Adrian: I can visit people in their dreams.
Christian: Stop. I can feel there is a comment coming on about how women already dream about you. I just ate, you know.
Richelle Mead
#79. The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement ... Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
Neil Simon
#80. Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't.
Nina George
#81. A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.
Santosh Kalwar
#82. For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
Jenny Lewis
#83. Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler
#84. Alana, you could never disappoint me," he shifts while still on top of me. "I may have had more lovers than you, and I may take my clothes off for countless women, but you are the only one who can strip me bare.
Marissa Carmel
#85. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.
Wilbur Smith
#86. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
Hill Harper
#87. If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.
Amanda Marcotte
#88. I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
Bell Hooks
#89. If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.
Yoko Ono
#90. To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
#91. I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.
Sandra Lee
#92. The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
Howard Dean
#93. All I can say on women's issues and women's health issues, there will be nobody better than Donald Trump.
Donald Trump
#94. Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned this
France or the Bible.
Karen Russell
#95. In the past, I was sometimes put in this women's lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me - although I certainly recognize it can be helpful and correct for other people.
Jami Attenberg
#96. I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.
Michelle Obama
#97. Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity.
Sam Ervin
#98. If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
Patrick Ness
#99. I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.
Ron Brackin
#100. I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.
Lorraine Maloney Armstrong
