Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Schlessinger

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

Laura Schlessinger

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

Neil Simon

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

Marcus Garvey

She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

Marcia Wallace

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

Samuel Johnson

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Samuel Johnson

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Roxane Gay

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Robert Jordan

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

Robertson Davies

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Robert E. Howard

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

Robert E. Howard

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

Walt Whitman

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Tina Fey

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

Sacha Guitry

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Ruth Rendell

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Susan Faludi

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

Susan Faludi

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Susan Butcher

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

Taylor Swift

, and they could name a handful.

Simone de Beauvoir

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Simone de Beauvoir

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

Simone Weil

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Stendhal

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Stendhal

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Spike Lee

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

Sigmund Freud

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

Shakira

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.