Women Quotations - Quotations

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
-- Joseph Addison
"Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon."
-- Tim Allen
"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. "
--Lord Amherst
"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
--Marcel Archard
"I married beneath me. All women do."
-- Lady Nancy Astor
"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth."
-- Gertrude Atherton
"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
-- Tallulah Bankhead
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."
-- Dave Barry
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."
--Erma Bombeck
"While women weep as they do now, I'll fight; While little children go hungry as they do now, I'll fight; While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight I'll fight to the very end!"
--William Booth founder of The Salvation Army
"I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.....I think I'm scary to people....I'm a bad girl."
--Lara Flynn Boyle
"Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone."
-- Lenny Bruce
"Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both."
-- Samuel Butler
"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
-- Lord Byron
"Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant."
--Charles A. Cerami
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing ~ and then marry him. "
-- Cher
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
-- William Congreve
"Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won't run."
-- Phyllis Diller
"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. ~ An optimist is one who hopes they are."
-- Senator Chauncey Depew
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. "
-- Isadora Duncan
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
-- George Eliot
"Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"
-- Edith Evans
"The demand that women return to femininity is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful."
--Susan Faludi
"Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness."
--Susan Faludi
"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
--Warren Farrell
"A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle."
-- Edna Ferber
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The great question ~ which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'"
-- Sigmund Freud
"All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her."
-- Nizar Gabani
"All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others."
-- Chad A. Gamble
"I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. "
-- Mel Gibson
"There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon."
-- Giraudoux
"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
-- Lewis Grizzard
"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. "
-- Oliver Herford
"Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?"
-- Benny Hill
"Man has will, but woman has her way. "
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. "
-- Edgar Watson Howe
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
-- Washington Irving

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