Women Sayings & Quotes
These women sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary, or a stool. To stumble over and vex you, 'curse that stool!' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this, that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical 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
Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal. - William Shakespeare
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. - Queen Victoria
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. - Nadine Gordimer
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. - Henry Louis Mencken
Men's vows are women's traitors! - William Shakespeare
I believe in the single standard for men and women. - Mae West
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I see when men love women. They five them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door, and just visit now and then. - Katherine Hepburn
We've got a generation now who were born with semi equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. - Erma Bombeck
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women merely adored. - Oscar Wilde
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. - Mary Wollstonecraft
I married beneath me. All women do. - Lady Nancy Astor
One can always recognize women who trust their husbands. They look so thoroughly unhappy. - Oscar Wilde
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. - Woodrow Wilson
A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring. - James Thurber
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they were made by someone who had often heard shoes described but had never seen any. - Margaret Halsey
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. - Harold Sydney Geneen
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. - Louisa May Alcott
Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. - Lord Byron