Quotes about women
women trying annoying
Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily. Judith Martin
women littles approval
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them. Judith Martin
women relative nutty
What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative? Judith Martin
women technology feelings
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering. Judith Martin
women rude effort
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure. Judith Martin
women approval accepting
You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval. Judith Martin
women order discovery
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. Judith Martin
women sadness badness
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad James M. Barrie
women men
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. James M. Barrie
women mean skirts
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. James Laver
women memorable mind
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment. Joan Ganz Cooney
women thinking people
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do. Joan Jett
women dope buying
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler. Jimmy Cannon
women memorable stomach
I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. Joan Rivers
women competition chess
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. Garry Kasparov
women adjectives chess
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. Garry Kasparov
women adorable most-adorable
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily. Ludwig Borne
women independent clothes
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation? Lucy Stone
women being-appreciated feels
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Louis de Bernieres
women years together
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Lord Chesterfield
women long found
I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures. Lord Chesterfield
women long together
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes. Lord Chesterfield
women details kind
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company. Malcolm de Chazal
women school mind
I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one. Malala Yousafzai
women capacity companion
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. Mahatma Gandhi
women law violence
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women. Mahatma Gandhi
women ends existence
women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love! Madame de Stael
women writing greater
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. Madame de Stael
women people want
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. Madame de Stael
women apples golden
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
women good-man association
Association with women is the basis of good manners. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
women feminine femininity
The eternal feminine draws us up. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
women noble-man gentle
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe