Quotes
Quotes about Women
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women who promote war, vote for war, kill in war? Is it men or women who as 'talk show hosts' allow no talk? Is it men or women who are more often pedophiles? Is it men or women who torture lab animals more?
When I step out of the role you have written for me you make me feel like a plagiarist. from the play Jake's Women.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
The Man and His Two Sweethearts A middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
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.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
I dress for women and I undress for men.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
