If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn MonroeWell-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher UlrichWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar WildeGive a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane AustenMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiNot one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
BuddhaAll the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
William ShakespeareEvery man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
Kahlil GibranA wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
Maya AngelouBehind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho MarxMan does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho MarxThere is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve MartinA woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
David Herbert LawrenceSigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever; one foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never.
William ShakespeareSingle women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane AustenIf a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane AustenFrailty, thy name is woman.
William ShakespeareThe sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya AngelouWomen and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. HeinleinMen aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy, they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de AngelisFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia WoolfA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughThis man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Henny YoungmanA woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayThough women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
Lord ByronSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnI am a woman, phenomenally phenomenal woman, that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
Maya AngelouAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryCuriosity n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose BierceNo doubt exists that all women are crazy, it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FieldsAny woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret ThatcherWhen women are true, brave, kind and compassionate, the World can have an era of peace and joy!
Sai BabaWhat a strange thing man is, and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord ByronWomen need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de AngelisWoman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean PaulI hate women because they always know where things are.
VoltaireLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel ProustBlessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor HugoThe history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia WoolfAs vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
Joseph AddisonIf women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
AristotleI like intelligent women. When you go out it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank SinatraReputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas PaineThere are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'RourkeStupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich NietzscheMany societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret MeadAs far as I knew, white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouA woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham LincolnI have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma GandhiThe real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma GandhiPrayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma GandhiBlack women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
Maya AngelouDo you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house that's what it means.
Henny YoungmanShe’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won.
William ShakespeareShe wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar WildeThere's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert EllisWomen are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar WildeMen's vows are women's traitors!
William ShakespeareI see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar WildeThe true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich NietzscheA psychologist once told me that, for a boy, being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
Hillary ClintonAs long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar WildeI've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret ThatcherI will far rather see the race of man extinct, than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiThis 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.
Virginia WoolfWhen women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. MenckenWomen should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho MarxWomen are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor RooseveltHuman rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights.
Hillary ClintonWell if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William ShakespeareI'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!
Alanis MorissetteIt's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Hedy LamarrBachelors know more about women than married men, if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. MenckenMothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!
Sai BabaIt is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages personal relations and multi-tasking but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen HawkingClever and attractive women do not want to vote, they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard ShawHow can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them the women the children the sick the aged the blind the decrepit that come for counsel consolation courage and cure?
Sai BabaNo one is more arrogant toward women more aggressive or scornful than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de BeauvoirWomen are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief born out of folk - experience that three women cannot live in unison!
Sai BabaIn Hollywood the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset MaughamWomen can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel ButlerWomen don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill CosbyWomen are the repositories of Truth and Culture.
Sai BabaWhat Women Want: To be loved to be listened to to be desired to be respected to be needed to be trusted and sometimes just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
Dave BarryOne can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
Hillary ClintonThe greatest beauty aid for women is virtue.
Sai BabaI do not believe in using women in combat because females are too fierce.
Margaret MeadWe had three pairs of women's underwear on stage after our show in Seattle. Of course they were on the large side ...
Dave BarryAll 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.
Brian TracySilence is an ornament for women.
SophoclesBeing a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran LebowitzAs today is a sacred day dedicated to women they should change themselves and help to change the men and the children. They should develop the qualities of sympathy compassion, love and sacrifice.
Sai BabaIf women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. MenckenWomen are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI've always liked men better than women.
Bette DavisGrowing up with the childhood that I had I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Christina AguileraIn the past decade or so the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner which they learned in Wood Shop, eventually when enough things in the home are broken they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
Dave BarryAfter all what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself, if that were their sole purpose they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'RourkeA home in which the housewife sheds tears will be bereft of all prosperity. This is the ancient conception of the role of women in the home.
Sai BabaDecisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian TracyWe say that slavery has vanished from European civilization but this is not true. Slavery still exists but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor HugoWomen: You can't live with them and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo PhilipsWomen are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich NietzscheWomen's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe truth is I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia WoolfI'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George EliotMen cannot count they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Gertrude SteinWhen women go wrong men go right after them.
Mae WestIn too many instances the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Hillary ClintonClearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.
Alice WalkerI've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth TaylorThere is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'RourkeYou can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWomen are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
Hillary ClintonI want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina JolieThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen mourn for what they have lost, women for what they ain't got.
Josh BillingsFeminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Rush LimbaughThe battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor RooseveltIf a man will understand how intimately yea how inseparably self-control and happiness are associated he has but to look into his own heart and upon the world around ...Looking upon the lives of men and women he will perceive how the hasty word the bitter retort the act of deception the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
James AllenAll the men in my family were bearded and most of the women.
W. C. FieldsThere is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women and there are families.
Margaret ThatcherWOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land women are adored and revered.
Sai BabaMen now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. PeterThe reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis DillerMen should try to understand women and women should try to understand men.
Sai BabaMr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy LamarrI always play women I would date.
Angelina JolieGenteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich NietzscheFriends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions, their reasons are always different.
George SantayanaWomen as they grow older rely more and more on cosmetics. Men as they grow older rely more and more on a sense of humor.
George Jean NathanI'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. KennedyI fought all my life for women to make their own choices in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
Hillary ClintonWomen can't live with them can't live without them.
Desiderius ErasmusThere's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men and there's intrigue there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
Steve MartinWomen are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich NietzscheBut as to women who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love their virtue beauty education but form good housekeepers to breed a nation.
Lord ByronWomen are naturally secretive and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan DoyleI would go out with women my age but there are no women my age.
George BurnsThe faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that to me resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'RourkeI 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 EliotWhat is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
William BlakeWomen should take the correct path then men will follow suit as it is the women who have to take the leading role. The wife is half of the husband, if she becomes good then her husband who is the other half will also become good.
Sai BabaI'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
Alice WalkerI was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette DavisWithout modesty woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.
Sai BabaIf women were particular about men's characters they would never get married at all.
George Bernard ShawWell I can type all day without getting tired. [In response to a question as to which he preferred women or writing]
Isaac AsimovVery learned women are to be found in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or ever inventors.
VoltaireI am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
Marilyn MansonWomen encourage men to be childish then scold them.
Mason CooleyThere are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo PicassoBehind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich NietzscheWomen are like elephants. I like to look at 'em but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. FieldsI had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert EllisThere is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads God knows where
Lord ByronI owe nothing to Women's Lib.
Margaret ThatcherMen get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOur duty as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNow what I love in women is they won't or can't do otherwise than lie but do it so well the very truth seems falsehood to it
Lord ByronToo often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor RooseveltWomen want mediocre men and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret MeadSweet is revenge - especially to women.
Lord ByronA great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt WhitmanAristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men, although he was twice married it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand RussellWe don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
Hillary ClintonNever was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander PopeWhen men and women agree it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
George SantayanaWomen lie about their age, men lie about their income.
William FeatherThe generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld