As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad
Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
68 sayings from Samuel Butler
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
46 quotes from George Santayana
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
21 other wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
18 other quotes from Margaret Mead
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
10 sayings from Frank Sinatra
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
14 more wisdom & wit from James Thurber
I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.
14 wisdom & wit from Heinrich Heine
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
18 thoughts from Margaret Mead
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
8 quotes from Quentin Crisp
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
10 wisdom & wit from Marlene Dietrich
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
7 more thoughts from Edvard Munch
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
5 other quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
5 other wisdom & wit from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
30 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
12 more sayings from Rudyard Kipling
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
21 more wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
11 quotes from Rebecca West
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
21 other quotes from Jane Austen
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
2 wisdom & wit from Helena Rubinstein
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
14 sayings from James Thurber
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
68 views from Samuel Butler
Women hold up half the sky.
12 wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
18 more sayings from Margaret Mead
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
23 more sayings from Helen Rowland
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
4 thoughts from Minna Antrim
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 views from W. C. Fields
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
21 views from George Burns
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
9 more quotes from Barry Goldwater
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
6 more wisdom & wit from Aristotle Onassis
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
29 sayings from W. Somerset Maugham
No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.
24 other quotes from W. C. Fields
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
12 more thoughts from Simone de Beauvoir
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
30 more quotes from Virginia Woolf
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
12 more views from Simone de Beauvoir
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
7 other thoughts from Jose Marti
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
30 more sayings from Virginia Woolf
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
3 more quotes from Thomas Dekker
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
23 other quotes from Helen Rowland
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
30 more views from Virginia Woolf
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
14 more quotes from Stendhal
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
6 quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
30 other views from Virginia Woolf
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
14 thoughts from Jessica Savitch
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
9 quotes from Audre Lorde
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
9 views from Audre Lorde
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.
3 views from W. E. B. Du Bois
I also use women as a sex object maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
5 quotes from Oliver Reed
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
4 quotes from Francois Truffaut
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
33 more sayings from Erma Bombeck
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
4 other sayings from Francois Truffaut
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
11 other views from James Joyce
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
31 more wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
14 other views from Susan B. Anthony
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
3 quotes from William Allen White
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
6 views from George William Curtis
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony
On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
24 more thoughts from James Russell Lowell
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
31 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
14 other sayings from Susan B. Anthony
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
14 sayings from Jessica Savitch
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
30 more views from George Washington
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
6 thoughts from George William Curtis
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
12 wisdom & wit from John Barrymore
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
14 quotes from Jessica Savitch
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
14 other quotes from Jessica Savitch
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
14 more thoughts from Jessica Savitch
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
12 other views from George Jean Nathan
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
14 more thoughts from Susan B. Anthony
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
11 quotes from Clare Boothe Luce
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
5 wisdom & wit from Amelia Barr
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
5 quotes from Anna Held
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
11 sayings from Clare Boothe Luce
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
16 quotes from Henny Youngman
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
3 wisdom & wit from Charlotte Whitton
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
11 thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
10 quotes from Henry James
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
4 quotes from Giacomo Casanova
Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
6 other views from Mary Wollstonecraft
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
38 other thoughts from William Hazlitt
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
6 views from B. R. Ambedkar
I've always liked men better than women.
21 more sayings from Bette Davis
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
18 more quotes from Washington Irving
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
6 wisdom & wit from Mary Wollstonecraft
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
21 more thoughts from Bette Davis
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
4 other wisdom & wit from Marguerite Duras
Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
42 other thoughts from Josh Billings
Men's vows are women's traitors!
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
20 other quotes from Anatole France
Strong women only marry weak men.
21 views from Bette Davis
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
7 more views from Abraham Maslow
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
4 other quotes from Ellen Glasgow
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
4 quotes from Coretta Scott King
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
30 other sayings from Walt Whitman
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
5 wisdom & wit from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
7 wisdom & wit from Kate Smith
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
43 other quotes from Alexander Pope
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
5 thoughts from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
10 more thoughts from Wilson Mizner
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
2 thoughts from Rudolph Valentino
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
6 more quotes from Benjamin Spock
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
14 quotes from Golda Meir
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
14 sayings from Arthur Conan Doyle
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
2 more wisdom & wit from Rudolph Valentino
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 more thoughts from Florence Nightingale
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
2 other wisdom & wit from Daphne du Maurier
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
53 views from Marilyn Monroe
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
53 sayings from Marilyn Monroe
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
4 more sayings from Gilda Radner
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
10 thoughts from Elizabeth Bowen
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
6 quotes from Ashley Montagu
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
28 quotes from William Butler Yeats
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
10 more quotes from Emma Goldman
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
2 thoughts from John Mason Brown
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
9 thoughts from Iris Murdoch
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
18 quotes from Marcel Proust
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
14 wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
12 sayings from Casey Stengel
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
14 more quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
9 more sayings from George Sand
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
7 other quotes from John Calvin
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
14 other sayings from Ogden Nash
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
31 other quotes from Mae West
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
16 thoughts from Coco Chanel
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
16 more thoughts from Coco Chanel
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
10 quotes from Max Beerbohm
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
4 wisdom & wit from Guy de Maupassant
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
20 other sayings from Herbert Hoover
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
22 more thoughts from Samuel Richardson
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
24 other views from Lyndon B. Johnson
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
31 wisdom & wit from Mae West
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
Women lie about their age men lie about their income.
22 views from William Feather
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
14 other quotes from Ogden Nash
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
11 views from Lucille Ball
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
22 sayings from Samuel Richardson
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
22 other sayings from Samuel Richardson
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
22 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
22 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
6 more quotes from Malcolm De Chazal
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
3 wisdom & wit from Karen Horney
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
14 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
21 views from Laurence J. Peter
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
21 sayings from Miguel de Cervantes
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
14 other views from F. Scott Fitzgerald
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
90 other views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
29 other thoughts from Groucho Marx
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
17 sayings from John Lennon
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
103 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
5 other sayings from Jim Elliot
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
6 views from Bela Lugosi
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
7 sayings from Jean Giraudoux
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
36 wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
30 more wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
100 more thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Women have a predestination to suffering.
6 other sayings from Bela Lugosi
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Women should be obscene and not heard.
29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
6 wisdom & wit from Georg Buchner
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
7 other sayings from Ninon de L'Enclos
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
10 wisdom & wit from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
2 quotes from Grace Kelly
I hate women because they always know where things are.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
52 views from George Eliot
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
5 thoughts from Abigail Adams
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
14 more quotes from Hedy Lamarr
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
7 wisdom & wit from Ninon de L'Enclos
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
9 views from Pope John XXIII
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
25 sayings from C. S. Lewis
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
10 wisdom & wit from Louisa May Alcott
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
12 thoughts from Gene Tierney
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
9 more wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
52 sayings from George Eliot
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
9 sayings from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
8 more quotes from Franklin P. Adams
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
5 thoughts from Marya Mannes
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
10 other sayings from Louisa May Alcott
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
4 views from Dorothy Day
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
2 other quotes from Grace Kelly
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
10 more views from Billy Sunday
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
10 quotes from Louisa May Alcott