Women Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of women quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman”
– Virginia Woolf

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”
– Jane Austen

“Well-behaved women seldom make history”
– Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men”
– Joseph Conrad

“There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out”
– Mae West

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman”
– Anaïs Nin

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind”
– Virginia Woolf

“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
– Charlotte Brontë

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot”
– John Lennon

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation”
– Brigham Young

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim”
– Nora Ephron

“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid”
– George Carlin

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous”
– Coco Chanel

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce”
– Mark Twain

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch”
– Bette Davis

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it”
– Elizabeth Peters

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women”
– Virginia Woolf

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”
– Charlotte Brontë

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman”
– Margaret Thatcher

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself”
– Anaïs Nin

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget”
– Robert Jordan

“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay”
– Madonna

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels”
– Ann Richards

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it”
– D.H. Lawrence

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men”
– Neil Gaiman

“I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing”
– Mae West

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with”
– Gillian Anderson

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless”
– Lilith Saintcrow

“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

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from”
– Mae West

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice”
– Coco Chanel

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