Women Quotes

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Oscar Wilde

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Oscar Wilde

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Jackie Kennedy

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Julie Andrews

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Samuel Butler

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Megan Fox

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Paulo Coelho

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

Ellie Goulding

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Marianne Williamson

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

Denis Diderot

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Woodrow Wilson

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another

Friedrich Nietzsche

If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist.

David Thomas

Silence is an ornament for women.

Sophocles