Women Quotes

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. Robert Heinlein

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. Malcolm de Chazal

Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. Rudyard Kipling

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. Jules Michelet

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. Bella Abzug

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B. Anthony

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Susan B. Anthony

I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. Freya Stark

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Susan B. Anthony

We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. Susie Orbach

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it. Susan B. Anthony

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. Germaine Greer

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. Anita Brookner

A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. Barbara Cartland

I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. Barbara Cartland

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. Lady Nancy Astor

I must have women – there is nothing unbends the mind like them. John Gay

If you put a woman in a man’s position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. Fay Weldon

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having. Christian Nestell Bovee

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. Mary Austin

God’s rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman. George Meredith

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilised by Man. George Meredith

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention. Camille Paglia

Women’s sexual powers are enormous. All cultures have seen it. Men know it. Women know it. The only people who don’t know it are feminists. Desensualized, desexualized, neurotic women. Camille Paglia

Women have been the truly active people in all cultures, without whom human society would long ago have perished, though our activity has most often been on the behalf of men and children. Adrienne Rich

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. Elsa Schiaparelli

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded women. There is not one which has not made her subject to man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Abigail Adams