Top 100 Women Wisdom Quotes
#1. I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.
Joyce Tenneson
#2. In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.
Fatima Bhutto
#3. Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
James Stephens
#4. Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
Michelle Bachelet
#5. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.
Henry James
#6. Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.
Jacques Deval
#7. Peace is when we look upon the world together.
A.D. Posey
#8. Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.
Deepak Chopra
#9. I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
Viola Davis
#10. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#11. When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
Tyler Perry
#12. The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
Stephen Gaskin
#13. Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.
Jayce O'Neal
#14. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
#15. There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before.
Nikki Rowe
#17. There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.
Hillary Clinton
#18. Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
Suzy Kassem
#20. Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.
Debasish Mridha
#21. But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
Rupert Brooke
#22. I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, the pondering, of men and women of all the ages accumulated together under one roof to which we can have access as our needs require.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#24. We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.
G.G. Collins
#25. Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom.
Orna Ross
#26. We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#27. Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.
Cambria Hebert
#28. Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
Sarah J. Buckley
#31. (For those who like to quote Aristotle's wisdom when appealing to his "Prime Mover" argument for the existence of God, let us remember that he also claimed that women had a different number of teeth than men, presumably without bothering to check.) Everything
Lawrence M. Krauss
#32. Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
Christine De Pizan
#34. Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#35. Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. A wise woman invests her time and doesn't squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.
Toni Sorenson
#37. Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
Lysa TerKeurst
#38. [Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.
Frances Wright
#39. I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!
C. JoyBell C.
#40. Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women
Ali R.A
#41. It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#42. The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.
Debasish Mridha
#43. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
Lianne La Havas
#44. Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
#46. The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.
C. JoyBell C.
#47. do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love.
AVA.
#48. By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I ... understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!
Jennifer Aniston
#50. Worrying and Stressing is useless simply because whatever GOD has for you is for you. Let GOD happen.
Sabrina Newby
#51. I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it.
Debasish Mridha
#52. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.
A.D. Posey
#53. Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.
Debasish Mridha
#54. We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal.
Roland Merullo
#55. He set down his chili dog, and after a pondering moment of silence, he replied with words of wisdom I'd never forget: "Fuck women. Fuck school. Fuck money. Go write some books, get a good agent, lift weights, get tattoos, and never do a film with Keanu Reeves.
Jon Konrath
#56. Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
Huda Sha'arawi
#57. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.
Stefan Emunds
#58. Women don't have wisdom or knowledge in political things.
James Clavell
#59. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#60. There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#61. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#62. Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...
Virginia Alison
#63. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#64. Like the Bermuda triangle, she swallowed her victims whole.
Brandi L. Bates
#65. Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
John Eldredge
#66. Us women, no matter how crude we are with one another,we must always remember that we have two enemies in common."
The three of us look at each other confused, then back at Ms. Eleanor waiting for her to answer.
"Men," she sighs, still staring off. "And old age.
Chelsea Ballinger
#67. If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.
Debasish Mridha
#68. We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord
Lydia Brownback
#69. A wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature. Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal.
Charlotte Bronte
#70. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
A.D. Posey
#72. When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, "What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one's future happiness lies in the answer.
Marcel Proust
#73. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#74. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#75. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation
Ivy Gilbert
#76. Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.
Terry A. O'Neal
#77. Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
Luanne Rice
#78. I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts.
Pamela Clare
#79. Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.
Stephen Jay Gould
#80. At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.
Traditional Native American saying
Lucy H. Pearce
#81. Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
Jess C. Scott
#82. Whether between man and women, man and man, or woman and woman; look not towards any system that binds society created by man for guidance, but be guided by the principles of love. Love is the only law that commands this universe, and is the only language that is understood universally.
Forrest Curran
#83. Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.
Tamar Myers
#84. I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.
Hilda Doolittle
#85. There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#86. ...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
Pearl Cleage
#87. Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.
Debasish Mridha
#88. King Solomon's life reminds me
of wisdom, wealth, women, woes.
Toba Beta
#89. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet
#90. They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.
Lee Goff
#91. A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
Debasish Mridha
#92. I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.
Ron Brackin
#93. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld
#94. The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.
Gilles Marini
#95. Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.
Debasish Mridha
#96. You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.
Eleanor Brownn
#97. Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#98. Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.
Dakota Dawn
#99. I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
#100. Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
Nachman Of Breslov
