Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Langston Hughes

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

John Keats

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.

Karen Horney

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Joyce Brothers

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Jules Michelet

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Jules Renard

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Josh Billings

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Karl Kraus

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Karl Kraus

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Karl Kraus

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Otto Weininger

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.

Ouida

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Kathryn Stockett

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

June Jordan

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

Judy Woodruff

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

Maria Mitchell

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Nancy Astor

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

P. G. Wodehouse

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

P. G. Wodehouse

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Ovid

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Ovid

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

Ovid

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

Matthew Fox

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

Marya Mannes

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Marya Mannes

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

Mary Hunter Austin

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.