Women Quotes - page 5

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. (Walt Whitman)
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Stephen Stills
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
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?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx
Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. (George Eliot)
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.
George Carlin
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Büchner
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg Büchner
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Norman Mailer
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. (Louisa May Alcott)
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Alphonse Karr
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
George Bernard Shaw
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
George Bernard Shaw