I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. – Nora Ephron
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. – Hillary Clinton
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. – Simone de Beauvoir
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating. – Andrea Dworkin
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. – Coretta Scott King
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. – Margaret Mead
But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine. – Hillary Clinton
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. – Anna Held
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. – Geoffrey Chaucer
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. – Margaret Mead
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners. – Jim Elliot
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. – Rita Mae Brown
To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful. – William Butler Yeats
