“The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.”
― Pope Francis
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
"Never trust a woman or an automatic weapon."
— John Dillinger (1903-1934)
“Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline that concerns every part of the body and is continuously recalled through the constraints of clothing or hairstyle.”
― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
"If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
― Ken Robinson
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
― Martin Luther (1482-1546)
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?"
― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything."
― Neil Simon (1927-2018)
“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”
― Aristophanes (446-386BC)
"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
I never made a mistake in my life;
At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."
― Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
— Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
— Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.”
― Daniel C. Dennett
“Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.”
― Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
― G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."
– H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
“Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline that concerns every part of the body and is continuously recalled through the constraints of clothing or hairstyle.”
― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
“If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
"Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority against the tyranny of the majority."
—William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)
“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
― Milan Kundera
“It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.”
― Kālidāsa
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
"Wine and women bring misery."
― Martial (40-102)
“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress."
—Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
“Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a result of the diminution of the liberty of women.”
—Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
“Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.”
― Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
“if an astronomer calculates from the sky
he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars;
but in his house the womenfolk are at variance,
and he does not perceive their various misconduct.”
― Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250)
"It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action".
—Weili Dai
“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.”
― W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
― H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
“Women hold up half the sky.”
― Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
“Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production.”
― Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
“Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
“Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
"[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years."
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)