Women Quotes

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Havelock Ellis

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Kate Clinton

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Sloane Crosley

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think older women still have a full life.

Betty White

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

Stevie Nicks

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

Adam Lambert

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Dickens

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Virginia Woolf

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy de Maupassant

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Christopher Hitchens

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

Andy Warhol