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Inspirational Women Quotes

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Mohandas Gandhi

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women Quotes About Strength

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

William Shakespeare

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Henry Ellis

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Eleanor Clift

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Famous Women Quotes

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

More Women Quotes

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Mohandas Gandhi

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Samuel Richardson

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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