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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel

Designer · French · 1883 – 1971

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

Novelist · American · 1892 – 1973

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Elizabeth Bowen

Novelist · Irish · 1899 – 1973

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

Activist · American · b. 1944

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

Historian · English · b. 1938

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Saul Bellow

Novelist · American · 1914 – 2005

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Alexander Pope

Poet · English · 1688 – 1744

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

Writer · English · 1865 – 1936

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Harold MacMillan

Politician · English · 1894 – 1986

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce

Novelist · Irish · 1882 – 1941

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Gloria Steinem

Activist · American · b. 1934

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

Politician · American · b. 1964

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President · American · 1908 – 1973

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

Robert Anton Wilson

Writer · American · b. 1932

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

Don Nickles

Politician · American · b. 1948

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch

Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Victoria Woodhull

Activist · American · 1838 – 1927

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author · American · 1896 – 1940

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

Politician · German · 1857 – 1933

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Oriana Fallaci

Journalist · Italian · b. 1929

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

Ruben Hinojosa

Politician · American · b. 1940

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Norman Mailer

Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Carol P. Christ

Educator

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

Margaret Mead

Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

Novelist · Canadian · b. 1939

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Kate Millett

Activist · American · b. 1934

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

Leader · Israeli · 1898 – 1978

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Calvin

Theologian · French · 1509 – 1564

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

Thomas More

Author · English · 1478 – 1535

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author · American · 1896 – 1940

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