Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Robert A. Heinlein

In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

Tillie Olsen

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Tilda Swinton

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

Toni Morrison

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have no government.

Victoria Woodhull

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Victoria Woodhull

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Victor Hugo

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Victor Hugo

God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.

Victor Hugo

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Robert Bloch

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

Rita Dove

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Thomas Overbury

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Thomas Otway

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Thomas Otway

Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

Susan Sontag

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Rose Macaulay

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rex Stout

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

Rex Stout

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

Rex Stout

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

Rex Stout

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

Rebecca Solnit

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Torquato Tasso

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]

Rudyard Kipling

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Rudyard Kipling

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Stephen Potter

Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.