Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

JoBeth Williams

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

Joan Ganz Cooney

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

Joan Jett

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Jimmy Cannon

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Anna Jameson

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

Elbert Hubbard

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

Cate Blanchett

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Do we need everyone to be engineers? No. But we need more, and we need more women (in the field).

You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.

Melissa Leo

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

Laura Carmichael

There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

Germaine Greer

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.

Georgette Heyer

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

Herman Melville

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Herman Melville

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Henry David Thoreau

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Henry David Thoreau

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

Henry David Thoreau

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Henry David Thoreau

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

H. L. Mencken

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.