Showing posts with label quotes to live by. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes to live by. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2015

Women Quotes

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin Disraeli

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
Sofia Vergara

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Shelley

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
Isabel Allende

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.


Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Little Richard

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
Phylicia Rashad

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
Anna Quindlen

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
Kat Graham

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Hillary Clinton

Clearly 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 Walker



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