compilation of quotes on the subject "WOMAN"

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. "
-- Margaret Thatcher

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
-- Virginia Woolf

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"
-- Clare Boothe Luce

"I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore. "
-- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Life on the planet is born of woman. "
-- Adrienne Rich

"Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"God made man, and then he said 'I can do better than that' and made women. "
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

"I think, therefore I'm single."
-- Liz Winstead

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
--Marcel Archard

"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth."
-- Gertrude Atherton

"Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone."
-- Lenny Bruce

"Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both."
-- Samuel Butler

"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
-- Lord Byron

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
-- George Eliot

"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
--Warren Farrell

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"The great question ~ which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'"
-- Sigmund Freud

"There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon."
-- Giraudoux

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. "
-- Oliver Herford

"Man has will, but woman has her way. "
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. "
-- Edgar Watson Howe

"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
-- Washington Irving

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
-- Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton (motto of The Revolution newspaper)

"Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true."
-- Margaret Culkin Banning

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one. "
-- Simone de Beauvoir

"In every girl is a goddess. "
-- Francesca Lia Block

"Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden. "
-- Erma Bombeck

"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country."
-- Elayne Boosler

"Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. "
-- Anne Bradstreet

"I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it."
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
-- Marie Curie

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
-- Irina Dunn

"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
-- Sue Grafton

"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."
-- Rhonda Hansome

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous"
-- Coco Chanel

"Beauty and truth of a girl, though hardly found, are worthy to be sought"
-- George Buchanan

"Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece."
-- Author Unknown

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."
-- Laurence J. Peter

"The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
-- Author Unknown

"A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon."
-- Arnold Haultain

"Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women."
-- Nicole Hollander< "Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument."
-- Author Unknown

"The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself."
-- Elizabeth Metcalf

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one."
-- W.C. Fields

"Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble."
-- Doctor Leon

"Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly."
-- Sam Slick<(Thomas Chandler Haliburton) "They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."
-- Oliver Goldsmith

"It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily."
-- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
-- Aristotle Onassis

"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
-- Elsa Schiaparelli

"It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."
-- Alexandre Dumas

"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."
-- Sigmund Freud

"No woman wants to see herself too clearly."
-- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

"A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery."
-- Diana Stürm< "The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is."
-- Helen Rowland

"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."
-- Stanley Baldwin

"Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves."
-- Elissa Melamed

"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."
-- Mel Gibson, about what women want

"Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular."
-- E.V. Lucas

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."
-- Stephen Stills

"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."
-- Karl Kraus

"Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her."
-- John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own."
-- Mike Dobbertin, quoted in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."
-- William Shakespeare

"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."
-- James Thurber

"I hate women because they always know where things are."
-- Voltaire

"Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember."
-- Author Unknown

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
-- H.L. Mencken

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
-- Joseph Conrad

"There are no ugly woman, only lazy ones."
-- Helena Rubinstein