Quotations about Women

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Joseph Conrad

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
Charlotte Whitton

"Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment."
Arnold Bennett

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
Washington Irving

"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it."
Marilyn Monroe

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Marilyn Monroe

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If it makes me a bitch, okay."
Marilyn Monroe

"You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again."
Joan Rivers

"Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky."
Deborah Kerr

"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there."
Betty Grable

"Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature."
Petronius

"The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight.""
Lori Gottlieb

"A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realising herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things."
Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez

"Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend."
Homer

"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out."
Dolly Parton

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it is lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
Lord Byron

"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."
Camille Paglia

"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."
Camille Paglia

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, caving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."
Camille Paglia

"What breadth, what beauty and power of human development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisade, and all the fences, within which she is held captive!"
Alexander Herzen

"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
William Cobbett

"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not  even shallow."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
Christian Dior

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things."
Jilly Cooper

"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Virginia Woolf

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
William Shakespeare