Quotes about Women

“Eve is a twofold mystery.”

“Woman is the Nigger of the World.”

“Most women have no characters at all.”

“The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!”

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

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

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

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

“To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.”

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

“If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.”

“When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”

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

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

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.”

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

“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”

“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”

“But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?”

“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”

“There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.”

“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”

“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”

“The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.”

“It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.”

“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”

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