Quotes About Women

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Womens humor is part of the revolution.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

We don't need to go very far in any given day to find a need, hear a request, face an enemy, or encounter a situation that calls for a righteous application of our God-given power as women.