Women Quotes

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Shirley Manson

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

Germaine Greer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Tyra Banks

Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

She has great breasts, the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES! Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. Sorry. Perky breasts. That's not any better!

John Green

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Groucho Marx

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

George Sand

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Samuel Butler

A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike.

Naomi Weisstein

Women: 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 Philips

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Helen Rowland

It 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 Hawking

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing