All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx 

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift 

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
Clare Boothe Luce 

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz 

For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
Robert Briffault 

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf 

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Benjamin Tillett 

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe 

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith