Women Quotes

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Bella Abzug

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Virginia Woolf

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Terry Pratchett

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.

Orson Scott Card

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.

Charles Dickens

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Naomi Wolf

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not

William Shakespeare

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Susan B. Anthony

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

Gavin DeGraw

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

Jennifer Aniston

If, then, one should try to sum up the character of women's fiction at the present moment, one would say that it is courageous; it is sincere; it keeps closely to what women feel. It is not bitter. It does not insist upon its femininity.

Virginia Woolf

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Bill Maher

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Julie Burchill

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Sojourner Truth

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Louisa May Alcott

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Audre Lorde

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

Heinrich Heine