Quotes about Woman

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

Oscar Wilde

...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anne Frank

I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music.

John F. Kennedy

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Rita Mae Brown

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

Betty Friedan

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Betty Friedan

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Isak Dinesen

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover.

Cyril Connolly

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

Miscellaneous methods of Civil Disobedience: Standing in front of City Hall and chanting the word 'pudding' until one's demands are met. Phoning members of the 'establishment' and singing 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now' into the phone. Dressing as a policeman and then skipping. Pretending to be an artichoke but punching people as they pass.

Woody Allen

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Edgar Watson Howe

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joseph Joubert

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love.

Publilius Syrus

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Helen Rowland

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

John Erskine

For so many years, boot-cut jeans were it. It was the one thing that almost every woman went to. Boot cut is universally flattering, but the trend had to go somewhere else.

Hope Greenberg

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children.

Patrick Renn

We think it's reasonable if a woman wants to bring this up with her physician that they have a full discussion. It should be discussed with the woman and her decision should be honored.

Mary D'alton

Even with severe osteoporosis and proper approach, which is individualized for the woman, you can rebuild bone.

Carolyn Smith

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

Lucy Lawless

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

George Brett

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

Nan Aron

And two, boys in this culture, and in all cultures all around the world, one of the most humbling things in the world is to be beaten by a girl, or a woman, in anything. I think he articulated that.

Martha Burk

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Marcel Achard

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Georges Courteline

He was involved with a woman for a number of years, a long-term relationship, about eight years, ... And that relationship began to deteriorate, and then he began to see another woman. That woman became pregnant and that, of course, caused tremendous stress within the relationship with his original girlfriend.

Barry Hazen

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

Aimee Semple Mcpherson

They think there's nothing to be found. Sometimes a woman can be a size 8 on top and a 12 on bottom -- we help them find their right sizes.

Cynthia Coral

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.

Lucy Stone

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, . . . home economics than financial economics.

Paula Nelson

The Glenn Close model makes the most sense — a hard-assed, hard-nosed leader for a male-oriented group. It used to be that if a woman played a tough leader role, it was seen that she was not a woman, but asexual or gay.

William Luhr

She is an Academy Award nominee. She has been in everything since the beginning of time. She is a great comedian. Men want to marry her and women want to be her. The woman is unbelievable.

Amy Ettinger

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''.

Sigmund Freud

She said because she's a black woman, the odds are already against her as it is, I'm not going to make it worse for her.

Kristiana Bennett

Prevention of childhood obesity needs to begin before a woman ever gets pregnant.

Pamela Salsberry

A woman who e-mailed me asking about where she could buy the product ended up investing $250,000.

Seth Goldman

The woman said she arrived in Cancun on December 27 and that day met a man named Brad staying at a Cancun youth hostel. He later told her his name was Mike.

Charles Mathews

There is good news and bad news. We are trying to dig out a woman. We hope she is still alive.

Markus Rieder

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply.

Bella Abzug

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar

My sister gave the woman two aspirins from her purse, and I had some water with me.

Annie Clark

I knew a woman who had headaches. She was told they were related to high blood pressure, and that if she were to lose weight, that would bring her blood pressure down and stop the headaches. This went on for more than a year. She had a brain tumor.

Pat Lyons

The real secret of his success with women, in an era when sensitivity toward women wasn't part of most men's makeup, was that when he was with a woman, she had his undivided, genuine attention, ... He wasn't predatory. It just kind of happened between women and him.

Doug Ramsey

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

D.h. Lawrence

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

Cameron Diaz

Done correctly she won't have to give up shoe shopping. Carry on like this and she'll be the woman who lived in her shoes.

Susan Hannums

Connie is a beautiful woman, and we were just trying to keep her natural.

Bob Ryan

What women often wrote about their fears was that breast cancer might cut short their time to enjoy family and be around for important milestones as their children grow older. It appeared that the closer a woman felt to her family or larger social network, the more she feared her potential separation from them as a result of breast cancer.

Bret Shaw

Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Halle Berry

There is very little recognition that the conscience of the woman is as important, let alone more important, than the conscience of the provider.

Frances Kissling

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!'

Hunter S. Thompson

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

George Granville

We look for strength. We look for persistence — a woman of the year is someone who believes that women can do whatever they set their mind to, and Mukhtar illustrates those qualities better than anybody. This is a story that's going to shock everyone who hears it.

Cindi Leive

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

Every encounter with a woman must be viewed as a negotiation, ... the difference being instead of coaxing them off rooftops, you're coaxing them into romance. And remember, the negotiator is always in control.

Christopher Curtis

You could be the most successful and talented woman in the world, but the second you take off your clothes, your talent will fade. The purpose of music is to uplift, give comfort and wisdom. If you want to be a go-go dancer, then be one. If you want to be a singer, then sing.

Jaguar Wright

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows [and] devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Ilka Chase

Reducing mammography discomfort will help us all reach our shared goal of making sure that every woman gets regular screening mammograms, which have been demonstrated to save lives.

Jill Anderson

Developing a budget is one of the most powerful tools. One woman, earning a fairly decent salary, was left with almost nothing at the end of every week. When she checked her expenses, she found she was spending $600 a month on clothing. Most people, in fact, don't know where their money is going.

Joel Greenberg

I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

Aretha Franklin

I met a Christian woman, a former lesbian, who listened patiently to my story and led me to a ministry helping people overcome homosexuality. Because they loved me without judgment, I was able finally to give all my relationships with God and begin the real road to healing.

Anne Paulk

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Douglas Jerrold

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Betty Grable

She was a woman of positive influence who was all about progressing. She wanted things to change and grow.

Jessica Brown

In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical intervention.

Wendy Wright

Victims don't volunteer history of strangulation because of fear or shame. Plus there is also the fact that the woman is fighting for her life and her adrenaline is pumping.

Dr. Ellen Taliaferro

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Barbra Streisand

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Peter Stringfellow

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Saul Bellow

I'm just telling you it is so apparent from the photographs that this woman was enormously impaired when she got to the party. There can be no question about that.

Joe Cheshire

She is a phenomenal woman of God. She always has such a great heart for people and for God and for spreading his word.

Andy Hall

She immediately called me to ask what I had to say about this woman, and I said I never heard of her. I was stunned by her arrogance.

Tory Johnson

I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

Vanessa Marcil

I think she would be confirmed. The Democrats would hope she would stay two or three more years. It would give the president the honor to name the first woman chief justice.

John Vile

This place can be brutal for a woman. Maggie was the big sister they all needed.

Dave Magarity

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

He is absolutely not guilty and did not strike that woman. The last thing this man would want to do is hurt his hands.

Orlando Gonzalez

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Ninon de Lenclos

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen - that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!... They found that the eclair contains everything my system lacks. So I take three a day and I feel like a new woman.

Ruth Draper

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

I'm planting seeds everywhere I go, so that they'll say, I once heard this woman, and she didn't let them stop her, and she didn't get crushed, and if that little woman person can do it, then I can do it. And that's my revenge. That's my legacy and my memorial.

Sunny Jacobs

I am aware that Mark recalls I instructed him to have this woman make a contribution to the Carey campaign.

Richard Sullivan

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Don Williams, Jr.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

H. L. Mencken

To my mind, it does look significant, and women need to know that, ... That needs to be clearly part of the information that woman and health providers have in making these important decisions.

Richard Klausner