Top 464 Women Quotes

I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
Bradley Cooper
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’
Marilyn Monroe
I made 'LS4TS2' for women, my Day 1's, the trenches, an

I made ‘LS4TS2’ for women, my Day 1’s, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.
Lil Durk
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.
Denise Austin
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
Sandra Day O’Connor
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Miranda Kerr
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
Christian Louboutin
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Scott Adams
No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.
Jonny Greenwood
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it’s minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
Dasha Zhukova
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
Jim Elliot
I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
Wesley Snipes
America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Indra Nooyi
Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’
Nia Vardalos
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they’re not with a partner then it doesn’t really count. They’re still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don’t discuss that, because it’s too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
Jane Campion
Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
Kendra Wilkinson
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia
I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.
Winona Ryder
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Adam Yauch
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
Julia Stiles
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
Vera Wang
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
Indra Nooyi
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
Jordan Peterson
There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agr

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
Jordan Peterson
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Adam Sandler
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubinstein
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
Niccolo Paganini
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Grace Kelly
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
Alanis Morissette
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
Mary Shelley
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.
Shirin Ebadi
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.
Marilyn Manson
Success doesn’t come overnight, especially for women.
Rachel Morrison
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn’t learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don’t think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
Monica Bellucci
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
Henri Nouwen
You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.
Jennifer Lopez
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
Bill Gates
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque
So many women just don’t know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Mary Kay Ash
I had it all – money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want – but it didn’t give my life meaning.
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
Helen Fisher
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
Emma Bonino
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Gloria Steinem