“Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.”
– Desiderius Erasmus
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
– Anatole France
“Women are the real architects of society.”
– Cher
“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
– Yul Brynner
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
– E. M. Forster
“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”
– George William Curtis
“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
– James Thurber
“Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
– Golda Meir
“It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”
– Amelia Barr
“I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.”
– Dylan Moran
“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.”
– Sofia Vergara
“I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.”
– Heinrich Heine
“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.”
– Kathleen Turner
“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
– George Santayana
“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
– Gloria Steinem
“Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.”
– Bill Cosby
“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
– John Barrymore
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
– Timothy Leary
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
– Coco Chanel
“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
– Gloria Steinem
“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
– Coco Chanel
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
– Barbara de Angelis
“I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”
– Audre Lorde
“I always play women I would date.”
– Angelina Jolie
“There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.”
– Albert Ellis