Quotes about Women

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Author: Joseph Conrad

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Author: William Edgar Borah

The society of women is the element of good manners.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
Author: George Eliot

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Author: Franklin P. Adams

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Author: Elizabeth II

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided:
1. That dear old soul;
2. That old woman;
3. That old witch.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
Author: John Erskine

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.
Author: Corazón Cojuangco Aquino

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Author: Margaret Atwood

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
Author: Pauline Frederick

When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.
Author: Mary Ingraham Bunting

When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.
Author: Mary Ingraham Bunting