Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

Marge Piercy

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

Theodor Reik

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

Theodore Dreiser

Why must women torment me so?

Margaret Mitchell

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Margaret Mead

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Margaret Mead

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Margaret Mead

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Fuller

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Kin Hubbard

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

Melissa McCarthy

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

Maya Angelou

Being a woman is hard work.

Maya Angelou

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

Maya Angelou

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Max Beerbohm

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Marina Tsvetaeva

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Patricia Briggs

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Patricia Briggs

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

Patricia Briggs

Only cowards torture women.

Plautus

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

Plautus

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Plautus

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

Lisa Kleypas

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

John Vanbrugh

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

John Updike

Women are an alien race set down among us.

John Updike

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

John Updike

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

John Updike

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

Nancy Astor

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.