Top 50 Women Quotations
- "There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. "
--Lord Amherst
- "I married beneath me. All women do."
-- Lady Nancy Astor
- "Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth."
-- Gertrude Atherton
- "It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
-- Tallulah Bankhead
- "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an
infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even
considering if there are men on base."
-- Dave Barry
- "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."
--Erma Bombeck
- "I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the
other women leave the room.....I think I'm scary to people....I'm a bad
girl."
--Lara Flynn Boyle
- "Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone."
-- Lenny Bruce
- "Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both."
-- Samuel Butler
- "What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
-- Lord Byron
- "Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their
personalities but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so
great it makes their faults seem insignificant."
--Charles A. Cerami
- "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing ~ and then marry him. "
-- Cher
- "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
-- William Congreve
- "Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort,
independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that
won't run."
-- Phyllis Diller
- "A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. ~ An optimist is one who hopes they are."
-- Senator Chauncey Depew
- "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. "
-- Isadora Duncan
- "Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness."
--Susan Faludi
- "A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle."
-- Edna Ferber
- "The great question ~ which I have not been able to answer, despite
my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a
woman want?'"
-- Sigmund Freud
- "There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon."
-- Giraudoux
- "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
-- Lewis Grizzard
- "A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. "
-- Oliver Herford
- "Man has will, but woman has her way. "
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. "
-- Edgar Watson Howe
- "A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
-- Elbert Hubbard
- "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
-- Washington Irving
- "You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
-- Erica Jong
- "A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
-- Rudyard Kipling
- "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I
fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will
say, 'Women don't have what it takes."
-- Clare Boothe Luce
- "Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
-- Groucho Marx
- "A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self-indulgence."
--W. Somerset Maugham
- "High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
-- Christopher Darlington Morley
- "I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad
girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be
warned against. "
-- David Niven
- "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
-- Aristotle Onassis
- "Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."
-- Helen Rowland
- "Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men
need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
"
--Rita Rudner
- "Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I
gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That
was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for
gambling is satisfied by marriage. "
--Gloria Steinem
- "Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally
correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a
man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference
it makes WHAT man. "
--Gloria Steinen
- "There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. "
-- Laurence Sterne
- "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"
-- Barbara Streisand
- "Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
- "I hate women because they always know where things are. "
-- James Thurber
- "From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she
needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs
good cash. I'm saving my money."
-- Sophie Tucker
- "Women are like stars, there are millions of them out there, but only one can make your dreams come true. "
--Unknown
- "When women go wrong, men go right after them."
-- Mae West
- "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism
is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express
sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
-- Rebecca West
- "Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. "
--Charlotte Whitton
- "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
-- Virginia Woolf