Women Quotes

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Jon Bon Jovi

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Ernest Hemingway

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Martina Navratilova, (attributed

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Sir Richard Steele

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Mickey Rooney

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.

Orson Welles

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Emma Goldman

I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Marilyn French

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Simone de Beauvoir

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Jean Baudrillard

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Sister Corita Kent

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Sheryl Sandberg

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens