Quotations about Women

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
-- Erica Jong
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
-- Rudyard Kipling
"At 38 years, I finally got me the woman that said those six words I wanted all my life to hear: 'My dad owns a liquor store.' "
-- Mark Klein
"The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all."
--Aung San Suu Kyi ~ Nobel Peace Prize Laureate leader of Burma's democracy movement
"In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts?"
--Jay Leno
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes."
-- Clare Boothe Luce
"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
-- Groucho Marx
"A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self-indulgence."
--W. Somerset Maugham
"A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
-- Christopher Darlington Morley
"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Woman was God's second mistake."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder."
-- Chester Nimitz
"I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against. "
-- David Niven
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
-- Aristotle Onassis
"I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit."
--Peter O'Toole
"Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take; / But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake."
-- Alexander Pope
"Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."
--Roseanne
"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."
-- Helen Rowland
"Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. "
--Rita Rudner
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
-- William Shakespeare
"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. "
--Gloria Steinem
"Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes WHAT man. "
--Gloria Steinen
"There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. "
-- Laurence Sterne
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"
-- Barbara Streisand
"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
"I hate women because they always know where things are. "
-- James Thurber
"From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money."
-- Sophie Tucker
"Women are like stars, there are millions of them out there, but only one can make your dreams come true. "
--Unknown
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
-- Mae West
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
-- Rebecca West
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. "
--Charlotte Whitton
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. "
--Oscar Wilde
"If there were something called Marriage Reserve, I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat. That way I could sleep with other women on one weekend each month and two weeks in the summer, and my wife couldn't do crap about it. "
--Mike Wilson
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
-- Virginia Woolf

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