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Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.
~ Anne Desclos
Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
~ Adah Isaacs Menken
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.
~ Hillel Neuer
Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
~ Richard Dawkins
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
~ Honore de Balzac
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
~ James Denton
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
~ Sally Quinn
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
~ Nellie Bly
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
~ Richard Carmona
Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.
~ Lita Ford
Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.
~ Silius Italicus
What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.
~ Homer
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
~ Nancy Astor
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.
~ Jack Nicholson
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
~ Robin Morgan
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
~ Catherine Deneuve
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
~ Chanakya
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
~ Judith Butler
The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
~ Frederic Farrar
The ezer is a warrior, and this has far-reaching implications for women, not only in marriage, but in every relationship, season, and walk of life.
~ Carolyn Custis James