300 Quotes on Women

• A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, a wise man tells her that her beauty doesn’t need makeup.

  Author: Unknown Author

• A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink

  Author: Gina Carey

• Don't be afraid to speak up, your voice is your power.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell that how strong she is until you put her in a hot water.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• Though she be but little, she is fierce.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• There is no limit to what a woman can accomplish when she believes in herself.

  Author: Marie Curie

• Do not be afraid to shatter the glass ceiling, for it is only through breaking barriers that we pave the way for the extraordinary.

  Author: Samantha Jenkins

• Behind every successful woman is herself.

  Author: Jane Smith

• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

  Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

• This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  Author: William Yeats

• Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

  Author: Rosalyn Yalow

• As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

  Author: Gao Xingjian

• I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

  Author: Jane Wyman

• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

  Author: William Wycherley

• Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

  Author: William Wycherley

• Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

  Author: William Wycherley

• It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

  Author: Jennifer Wyatt

• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  Author: Frances Wright

• Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• Women have no government.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.

  Author: Torrie Wilson

• I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

  Author: Shirley Williams

• I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

  Author: Serena Williams

• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  Author: Robin Williams

• If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

  Author: Robin Williams

• If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

  Author: Esther Williams

• Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

  Author: Bern Williams

• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Author: Ellen Wilkinson

• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

  Author: John Whitehead

• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  Author: William White

• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

  Author: Lynn Westmoreland

• The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

  Author: Lynn Westmoreland

• The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

  Author: Rebecca West

• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

  Author: Mae West

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  Author: Mae West

• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Author: Allen West

• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  Author: Ida Wells

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Author: Ida Wells

• If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Author: Orson Welles

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

  Author: Brian Welch

• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  Author: Naomi Weisstein

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  Author: Otto Weininger

• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  Author: Otto Weininger

• For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  Author: George Weinberg

• Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

  Author: George Weinberg

• I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  Author: Faye Wattleton

• Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

  Author: Diane Watson

• Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

  Author: Diane Watson

• It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

  Author: Barry Watson

• The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

  Author: Jody Watley

• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  Author: George Washington

• I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

  Author: Lemuel Washburn

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Author: Earl Warren

• Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

  Author: Sela Ward

• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

  Author: Mary Ward

• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Author: Mary Ward

• I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

  Author: Fred Ward

• I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

  Author: Fred Ward

• We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

  Author: Burt Ward

• Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!

  Author: Burt Ward

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  Author: Vera Wang

• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  Author: Vera Wang

• It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

  Author: Vera Wang

• Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

  Author: Rob Walton

• I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

  Author: Julie Walters

• Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

  Author: James Walsh

• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

  Author: Alice Walker

• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

  Author: Alice Walker

• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

  Author: Andy Wachowski

• All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

  Author: Voltaire

• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

  Author: Voltaire

• I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

  Author: Nana Visitor

• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  Author: Queen Victoria

• The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

  Author: Linda Vester

• You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

  Author: Gianni Versace

• My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

  Author: Milo Ventimiglia

• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

  Author: Paz Vega

• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• Women are always beautiful.

  Author: Ville Valo

• To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

  Author: Rudolph Valentino

• Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

  Author: Rudolph Valentino

• It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Author: Charles V

• Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

  Author: Bob Uecker

• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Author: Cicely Tyson

• What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• Women hold up half the sky.

  Author: Mao Tung

• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

  Author: Sojourner Truth

• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  Author: Donald Trump

• In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Author: Rachel True

• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Author: Flora Tristan

• You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• 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.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

  Author: Mary Timony

• 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.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

  Author: Cheryl Tiegs

• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  Author: James Thurber

• Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

  Author: James Thurber

• I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

  Author: James Thurber

• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  Author: Dave Thomas

• I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

  Author: Mary Terrell

• As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

  Author: Lee Tergesen

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

  Author: Sheri Tepper

• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

  Author: Gay Talese

• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Author: James Talent

• Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

  Author: Henrietta Szold

• Men don't hear women.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.

  Author: Peter Sutcliffe

• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Author: Billy Sunday

• You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Author: Janet Street-Porter

• A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

  Author: Picabo Street

• Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

  Author: Peter Straub

• But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

  Author: Dorothy Stratten

• Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

  Author: Dorothy Stratten

• 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.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Author: Rex Stout

• Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• Leave women to find their sphere.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

  Author: Emma Stone

• I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

  Author: Emma Stone

• It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

  Author: Tom Stewart

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

  Author: James Stephens

• Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

  Author: James Stephens

• The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

  Author: Stendhal

• What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

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