Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Leverson

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

Abraham Cowley

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

Alec Waugh

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman is the lesser man.

Alex Comfort

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

Aldous Huxley

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

We don't know much of anything about her. In those days, they didn't write too much about women.

Abigail Adams

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Abigail Adams

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Aeschylus

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

Adrienne Rich

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

Agatha Christie

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Tamara Mellon

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Jane Addams

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Austen

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

She is loveliness itself.

Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Walt Whitman

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Mark Waters

I find women much more interesting than dudes.

Dana Torres

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

Julianne Moore

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Carol Burnett

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Charles Darwin

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, butwhether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Barbara Cartland

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Arthur Symons

I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.