Women Quotes

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Hillary Clinton

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

Julie Burchill

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.

Victor Hugo

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

George William Curtis

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Stendhal

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

As armed conflict is highly gendered and women

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What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water.

Catullus

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.

Margaret Thatcher

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Bertrand Russell

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Evan Esar

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.

Margaret Thatcher

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

Percy Wynham Lewis