Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Women.
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Dame Edith Evans
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
Marco Rubio
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
Sargent Shriver
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
Andrew Cuomo
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Queen Victoria
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger
The fundamental impulse of the movement is neither masturbatory nor concretely lesbian -- although it of course offers warm house to both these possibilities; it is an impulse to maidenhood -- to that condition in which a woman might pretend to a false fear or loathing of the penis in order to escape from any responsibility for the pleasure and well-being of the man who possesses it.
Midge Decter
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Washington Irving
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
Dave Attell
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
Jane Austen
There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Tori Amos
It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it
William Shakespeare
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Leonard Cohen
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor