Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Honore de Balzac

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Honore de Balzac

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Francis Thompson

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Hugh Hefner

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

Hugh Hefner

It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.

Horace Walpole

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Horace Walpole

I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.

Homer

No trust is to be placed in women.

Homer

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

Homer

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

Erica Jong

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Hillary Clinton

when women progress, all of society benefits.

Hillary Clinton

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

Herbert Croly

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

Evelyn Waugh

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Eva Mendes

I love my curves and I embrace them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Ione Skye

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Jack Gilbert

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

Isabel Allende

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Harriet Tubman

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Ginny Brown-Waite

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Ginny Brown-Waite

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Ginny Brown-Waite

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

Ginny Brown-Waite

I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

Ginny Brown-Waite

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Joanna Garcia

I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?