I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma BombeckWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia WoolfAgeism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis MorissetteI don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco ChanelMany women long for what eludes them and like not what is offered them.
OvidThe learned are envied by the foolish, rich men by the poor, chaste women by adulteresses, and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
ChanakyaI'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough, or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See you did it yourself.'
Alice WalkerI am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
E. M. ForsterTruth sacrifice and peace are predominant qualities in women.
Sai BabaOnce you get a spice in your home you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Erma BombeckIt is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage
Jane AustenI try to speak my points of view about black America and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Will SmithWhether they give or refuse it delights women just the same to have been asked.
OvidMen and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill CosbyThe Avatar is a child to the children a boy to the boys a man among men a woman among women so that the Avatar Sai Baba
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters not as sparring partners.
Jim ElliotI don't think that women need to smell interesting.
Lady GagaThere are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Honore de BalzacAll he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth.
AristotleThere was never yet fair woman, but she made mouths in a glass.
William ShakespeareStrong women only marry weak men.
Bette DavisI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people being always excited, women wine fame the table even ambition sate now and then but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronItalians come to ruin most generally in three ways women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIIIMen want to make women happy.
Jerry SeinfeldMen become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Bette DavisConvent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose BierceCharm in most men and nearly all women is a decoration.
E. M. Forster'Mr. Churchill if you were my husband I'd poison your tea!' - And if you were my wife I would drink it!
Winston ChurchillThe happiest women like the happiest nations have no history.
George EliotIt is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire women will like him.
Mae WestSingle women have a dreadful propensity to being poor.
Jane AustenFew women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle ObamaMen are just as sensitive and in some ways more sensitive than women are.
Barbara de AngelisNo woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar WildeWhen you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains and the women come out to cut up what remains jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard KiplingWomen. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen HawkingThe big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans or women and men but between talkers and doers.
Thomas SowellWomen's Lib? Oh I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille BallI think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life we give life we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.
Christina AguileraHundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent they are making America more secure.
George W. BushThe 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.
Alice WalkerPerhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy LamarrThe three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat the subjection of women through hunger the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor HugoWhen freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul IIAristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand RussellThe most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de BeauvoirImagine a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3 000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men women and children.
Donald RumsfeldIt's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
Chuck PalahniukNothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.
Winston ChurchillTo a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David ThoreauThe most virtuous women have something within them something that is never chaste.
Honore de BalzacHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco ChanelThe people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women and millions like them across America to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket I said 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly what we're going to do.
Paul RyanWomen have hunger two-fold shyness four-fold daring six-fold and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
ChanakyaWomen prefer to talk in twos while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt'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.
Alice WalkerThe battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret ThatcherIn LA where I live it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis MorissetteAh women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich NietzscheBeauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis MorissetteMost women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma BombeckAll of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
Donald TrumpI'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier but not for you fifty thousand dollars or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe RuthJust as everybody has the vote including women I think children should because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude SteinI think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior things that a person will say against women profanity being gangster having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
Bill CosbyI mean honestly we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people men and women just want it to be over.
Hillary ClintonIf a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights including women's rights you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
Hillary ClintonWomen are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
StendhalI just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic that really comes out of the culture that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice WalkerLet us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda water the day after
Lord ByronI have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAbout the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
Saint Teresa of AvilaWhy are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia WoolfIn our society the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'ConnorI don't know who invented high heels but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn MonroeInstead of warning pregnant women not to drink I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.
George CarlinIf everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.
Barry GoldwaterIt is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy LamarrIf I became a philosopher if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul SartrePlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine HepburnTo be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats