Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Women
Quotations & Citations:
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
~H.L. Mencken
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~Robert A. Heinlein
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
~Virginia Woolf
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue.
~Hermione Gingold
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
~James Thurber
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
~Joseph Conrad
Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.
~William Shakespeare
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
~Samuel Johnson
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~Anaïs Nin
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.
~Mae West
A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
~Edna Ferber
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
~Brigham Young
Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
~Mae West
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
~George Carlin
There’s just something about letting a girl have her way with you.
~A.C. Van Cherub
Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.
~Méré
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
~John Lennon
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
~American Proverb
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
~Nora Ephron
It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
~Tallulah Bankhead
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
~Coco Chanel
When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.
~Bette Davis
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
~Caroline K. Simon
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
~D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
~Jean de La Bruyère
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.
~Mark Twain
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
~Stephen Stills
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
~Elizabeth Peters
A woman should be an illusion.
~Ian Fleming
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
~Margaret Thatcher
The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
~Robert Graves
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
~Anaïs Nin
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
~Dave Barry
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
~Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
~Elbert Hubbard
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
~Robert Jordan
I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.
~Stanley Baldwin
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
~Audrey Hepburn
The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
~Helen Rowland
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
~Madonna
A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.
~Diana Stürm
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
~Jane Austen, Persuasion
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
~Robert Brault
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
~Coco Chanel, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
~Neil Gaiman
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
~Sigmund Freud
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
~Oscar Wilde
It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~Alexandre Dumas
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
~Coco Chanel
I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
~Gilda Radner
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
~Virginia Woolf
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
~Oscar Wilde
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
~Yves Saint-Laurent
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
~Elsa Schiaparelli
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
~Cher
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
~Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West
Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
~Oscar Wilde
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~Roseanne Barr
I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
~Ogden Nash
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
~George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~Quentin Crisp
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
~Madeleine K. Albright
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
~Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
~Arnold Haultain
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!
~T.D. Jakes
There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
~Vincent Van Gogh
Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
~Khaled Hosseini