Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlaine Harris

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Charles Baudelaire

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes ... has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

Charles Baudelaire

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

William Shakespeare

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

William Shakespeare

Women's weapons, water-drops.

William Shakespeare

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

William Shakespeare

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

Nia Peeples

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

Edgar Degas

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Edna O'Brien

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Benjamin Franklin

Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

Barbara Tuchman

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Barbara Tuchman

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

Betty Friedan

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Betty Friedan

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

Aisha Tyler

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

Beverley Nichols

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

William Shakespeare

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

William Shakespeare

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'

The story of women who kill is the story of women.

James McAvoy

I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.

You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.