Women Quotes

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Madeleine Albright

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it neo-traditionalism. To us it's a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family

Anon., "Good Housekeeping ad in

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. Somerset Maugham

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

James Thurber

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

Catherine Deneuve

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Spencer, Letter to My Siste

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

John Lennon

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

Becky Sharp

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

Ang Lee

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Marlo Thomas

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Elizabeth Janeway

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Camille Anna Paglia

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Anna Paglia

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

Camille Anna Paglia