| Author |
Quotes |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good. |
| Anita Brookner | Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. |
| Bertrand Russell | For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. |
| Bible | And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. |
| Bible | It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. |
| Chauncey Depew | A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. |
| Congreve | Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. |
| Dame Edith Evans | When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? |
| Dave Barry | If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett | Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave. |
| Erica Jong | You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. |
| Henry Louis Mencken | No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. |
| Joanna Baillie | But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. |
| Kate Field | They talk about a woman s sphere as though it had a limit There s not a place in earth or heaven There s not a task to mankind given without a woman in it |
| Margaret Thatcher | In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. |
| Nadia Boulanger | I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. |
| Nizar Gabani | All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her. |
| Simone de Beauvoir | One is not born a woman, one becomes one. |
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