Women Quotes

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

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

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

"Women hold up half the sky."

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him."

"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them."

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

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him."

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

"Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still."

"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven."

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

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

"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away."

"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."

"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen."

"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."

"It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem."

"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."