Women Quotes

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Warren Farrell

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Julia Roberts

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving, The Sketch Bo

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Annie Lennox

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Christian Dior

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Warren Farrell

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison

A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Nancy Reagan

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Harriet Martineau

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Ambrose Bierce

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody

Bertrand Russell

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Ovid

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.

Ada Leverson

I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.

Gerhard Kocher

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

W. C. Fields