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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

John Adams

President · American · 1735 – 1826

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Billy Sunday

Clergyman · American · 1862 – 1935

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Allen

Author · British

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Jimmy Carter

President · American · b. 1924

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

Author · American · 1902 – 1984

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis

Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

John Galliano

Designer · British · b. 1960

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Author · British · 1893 – 1957

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Carl Jung

Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

James Russell Lowell

Poet · American · 1819 – 1891

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Writer · American · 1907 – 1988

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy

Writer · American · b. 1937

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Victoria Woodhull

Activist · American · 1838 – 1927

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Katherine Dunn

Novelist · American

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Washington Irving

Writer · American · 1783 – 1859

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Paul

Activist · American · 1885 – 1977

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

Phyllis Schlafly

Activist · American · b. 1924

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

Activist · Australian · b. 1939

Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.

Marquis de Sade

Novelist · French · 1740 – 1814

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

Author · American

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Albert Ellis

Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Louise Slaughter

Politician · American · b. 1929

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

Isaac Mizrahi

Designer · American · b. 1961

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Jeanette Winterson

Novelist · British · b. 1959

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

Writer · French · 1908 – 1986

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Poet · English · 1809 – 1892

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nancy Astor

Politician · British · 1879 – 1964

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Hesiod

Poet · Greek

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Agatha Christie

Writer · English · 1890 – 1976

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge · American · b. 1933

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

Warren Farrell

Writer · American · b. 1943

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

Poet · American · b. 1934

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Herodotus

Historian · Greek

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

Ken Follett

Author · Welsh · b. 1949

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin P. Adams

Journalist · American · b. 1881

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Richard King

Director

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley

Author · American · b. 1905

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Hillary Clinton

Politician · American · b. 1947

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