Women Quotes:

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

topic: Women, Self, Two, Ill Health

Great necessities call out great virtues.

- Abigail Adams

source: Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

topic: Inspirational, Women, Memorable, Contending

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

- Abigail Adams

source: Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

topic: Women, Memorable, Law, Women's Suffrage, Determined Woman

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

- Abigail Adams

source: Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

topic: Women, Heart, Bursting, Bunker Hill

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Women, Hero, Mean

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

- Abigail Adams

source: The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

topic: Wedding, Husband, Women, Women's Suffrage, Women Right

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Disappointment, Women, Love Is

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Husband, Women, Today, Chores, Household Chores

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Women, Values

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

- Abraham Coles

source: Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

topic: Sweet, Women, Useless, Bereft

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Women, Blunders

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

topic: Hurt, Women, Hurt Feelings

I want in all cases to do right.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Women, Want, Cases

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

- Ada Leverson

source: Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

topic: Women, Intuition, Quality

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

- Adela Rogers St. Johns

topic: Women, Men, Made

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

source: "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Women, Physical Beauty, Charming Woman

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Women, Knowing, Intuition, Subconscious Mind

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

- Agnes de Mille

source: Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

topic: Dance, Women, Lying, Inspirational Dance, Never Lie

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Happiness, Women, Recovery, Inner Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Funny, Women, Humor, Humor Laughter, False Gods

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Women, Soul, Secret

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

- Ahmed Yassin

topic: Children, Women, Priorities, Standpoint, Armament

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

- Aime Martin

topic: Women, People, Political

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

- Aisha Tyler

topic: Women, Book, Shoes, Prada

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

- Alain-Rene Lesage

source: Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.549, The Floating Press

topic: Women, Passion, Talking

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

- Alan Ayckbourn

source: Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.199, Grove Press

topic: Women, Believe, Littles

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Beautiful, Women, Flower, Qualitative

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Women, Eggs, Female, Crocodiles

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

- Alec Waugh

source: Alec Waugh (2011). “'Sir!' She Said”, p.10, A&C Black

topic: Women, Want, He Man

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

- Alex Comfort

source: Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket

topic: Women, Males, Machines, Vending Machines

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Mistake, Women, Nervous, Adaptability, Interpreter

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Wise, Honesty, Women, Being Generous

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Hate, Women, Forgiving

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Riddle, Please

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Half, Charm

Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Looks, Paradise, Surveys

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Race, Heaven

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Sex, Women, Tragedy

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Play, Cards

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Kings, Women, Character

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Husband, Women, Dragons

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Contradiction, Stills

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Women, Love Is, Sacred, Monte Cristo

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Strength, Strong, Women, Women Strength

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

- Alfred de Musset

source: Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

topic: Women, Blow, Wind, Take Me As I Am, Attitude Adjustment

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Funny, Women, Heaven, Funny Strong Women, Funny Women

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Women, Flower, Simple, Coat Of Arms

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

- Alice Duer Miller

topic: Baseball, Women, Emotional

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

source: 1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

topic: Women, Memorable, Doctors

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

- Alice Kahn

source: "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review" by Simon Ings, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2011.

topic: Women, Technology, Quality, Quality Of Life, Technology And Education

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

- Alice Paul

source: "A Photographer Traveled The World Snapping Portraits Of Women And Girls ‘Living On The Edge’" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

topic: Women, Order, World, Women's Suffrage, Women's Rights

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

- Alice Paul

source: "The Women’s Deliberation Movement" by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

topic: Peace, Women, Ubuntu, Plowing

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

- Alice Paul

source: "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

topic: Women, Equality, Rights, Equality For All, Equal Rights

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

topic: Girl, Women, Sides, Claudia

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

- Alice Walker

topic: Women, Famous Inspirational, Flower, Blooming Flower

What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?

- Alison Brie

source: "Alison Brie and Chris Pratt THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Set Visit Interview" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 1, 2012.

topic: Women, Guy

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

- Alison Lurie

topic: Women, Lying, Silence

Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.

- Allen Thomas

topic: Women, Zest, Add

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Women, Men, Affection

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Women, Compassion, Two

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

- Amanda Marcotte

topic: Women, People, Doubt, Advisable

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Women, Missing, Titles, Unmarried, Married Women

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Beautiful, Women, Devil, Register

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Revenge, Women, Growing, Wronged

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Retirement, Women, Judging

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

topic: Appreciation, Women, Home, Love And Appreciation, Appreciation In Relationships

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

topic: Motivational, Women, Blessing, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Courage, Women, Failure, Women Want, I Want A Woman

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

- America Ferrera

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, Stars, Women, Hispanic

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Women, Implied

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Women, Victory, Way

In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Offering, Doors

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Buttons, Elevators

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Sweet, Women, Thoughtful

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Toxic

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Heart, Essentials, Human Relations

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Life Is, Fullness, Fullness Of Life

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Painful, Rejected

There is true freedom in letting go.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Letting Go, Women, True Freedom

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Knitting, Long, Tough Situations

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Lost Love, Women, Long

People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Action, People Don't Change

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Problem, Persons

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Parent, Privilege, Adulthood

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Assessment, Needs, Appropriateness, Your Ex

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Believe, Optimistic

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Children, Women, Bored, Needy

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Fit

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

- Amy Dickinson

source: Interview with Patrick B. Anderson, lacrossetribune.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Women, Self, Advice, Unsolicited Advice

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Humans, Persons

Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Hurt, Jobs, Women, Anger And Hurt, Look After Yourself

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Feelings, Should, Your Ex

You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Drama, Effort

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Thinking, Want

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Want, Needs

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Hurt, Women, Giving, Giving And Receiving

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Reflection, Self, Personal Improvement, Fiance

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Advice, Grace

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Good Friend, Way

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Thinking, Negative

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Speak, Should

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Vintage, Choices, Pickup Trucks, Pickups

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Increase

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Real, Funeral

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Heard, Feels

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Temptation

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Self Esteem, Connections, Groveling

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Disappointment, Women, Party

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Aftermath, Sticks

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Stupid, Advice

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Pay, Crime, Misdemeanors, Crimes And Misdemeanors

Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Couple, Team, Women, Staying Together

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Moving, Apology

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Bully, Insecurity

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Creativity, Pushing Through

Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe for you.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Mean, Views

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Persons, Wrong Person

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Important, Appreciated

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Family Relationship, Estrangement

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Two, Groups, Groups Of Three

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Promise, Empty

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Heart, Feet

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Bored

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Distance, Sound

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Wall, Women, Healthy, Brick Wall, Picket Fences

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Party, Ideas, Third Parties

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Writing, Love Is

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Life Is, Weird People

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, People, Choices

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Skins, Life Is, Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Vibes, Sometimes

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Self, Views, Self Actualization, Fill The Void

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Book, Bored

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Hug, Heat

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Winning, Guy

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Nice, Women, Guilt, Playing Nice

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

- Amy Dickinson

source: "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, tucson.com. May 10, 2014.

topic: Women, People

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Disappointment, Women, Perspective

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Couple, Women, Thinking, Married Women

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Joy, Looks

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Believe, Culture, Deserve Love

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Promise, Threat

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

- Amy Lowell

topic: Women, Gowns, Marble, Softness, Bathing

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Powerful, Badass, Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

- Amy Poehler

topic: Women, Ideas, Guy, Notice Me

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Girlfriend, Real, Women

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

- Amy Vanderbilt

topic: Funny, Women, Age, Facility

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Sex, Women, Years

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

topic: Fashion, Women, Clothes

A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

- Andre Maurois

source: "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

topic: Strong, Women, Weakness, Strong Man, True Woman

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Women, Rain, Wife, Good Wife

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Women, Lying, Perfection, Weak Points

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Women, Wine, Pretty Woman, Good Wine

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Women, Ideas, Gossip

Women, for centuries not having access to ***** and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what ***** says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Women, Believe, Bears, Supermarkets

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Women, Needs, Intercourse

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Women, Childbearing

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

- Andrea Jung

topic: Women, Home, Opportunity, Avon

That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.

- Andrea Jung

topic: Women, Independent, Important, Contractor

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

- Andy Rooney

topic: Women, Smart, Yellow, Stunning, Relics

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

- Angela Braly

topic: Women, United States, Ceo

That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

- Angela Braly

topic: Women, Thinking, Decision, Good Questions

Here's the thing: I'm not in shape.

- Angela Kinsey

topic: Women, Shapes

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Personality, Elegance

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Men Women

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Long, Empowering, Fetters

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Believe, Honor, Respect Women, I Still Believe

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, People, Problem, Other People's Problems, Hang Ups

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Being Positive, Looks, Bright Side, Enough Is Enough

Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Powerful, Women, Believe, Matters Of The Heart, I Still Believe

As a woman with strong opinions talking about technology and politics is not always welcome in Germany. Nope, it's more like having a great cheerleader team behind me. People who follow my journey know I have a slightly colorful personality. The rest skipped out long ago.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Strong, Women, Team, Strong Opinions

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Strong, Mistake, Women, Wronged, Cheated On

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

- Angelina Grimke

topic: Art, Women, Rights, Equal Rights

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Women, Home, Pity, Mould

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Women, People, Use, Manipulative

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Women, Simple, Thinking

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

- Anita Brookner

source: Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7

topic: Women, Thinking, Good Woman, Bad Woman

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

- Anita Loos

source: Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

topic: Women, Justice, Soap, Women Empowerment, Soapbox

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

- Ann Landers

topic: Strong, Women, Unconditional Love

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

- Ann Landers

topic: Women, Looks, Recipes

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

- Ann Richards

source: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Women, Ginger

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

- Ann Wilson

topic: Women, Play, Rocks, Disco

As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

- Anna Bligh

topic: Women, Giants, Shoulders

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

- Anna Howard Shaw

topic: Women, Equality, Gentleman, Suffrage

woman's cause is one and universal ...

- Anna Julia Cooper

topic: Women, Feminism, Causes

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

- Anna Julia Cooper

source: Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.20, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Education, Women, Apples

tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.

- Anna Julia Cooper

topic: Women, Eye, Light

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Morning, Smart, Women, Not Pretty, Not Pretty Enough

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Women, Thinking, Way

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Friendship, Women, Heart, Female Friends, Thermometers

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

- Anna Russell

topic: Women, Two, Roger

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Women, Feminist, Ignorant, Opinionated

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

- Anne Hathaway

source: "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

topic: Girl, Women, Believe, Equality Of People

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Badass, Mistake, Women, Becoming Yourself

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon

topic: Women, Islands, Sea, Aviator

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.28, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Women, Order, Essence

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

- Anne Spencer

topic: Women, Humanity, Weakness, Taunting

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

- Anne Tyler

topic: Women, Reins