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Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir... mighty scarce.
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
She's strong! And scary... I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
You boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!
Women have always been spies.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Women are the real architects of society.
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Women are books, and men the readers be.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
Females are the most beautiful, gorgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think that we are gorgeous no matter what size we are.
You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story—I will.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Never apologize for being a powerful woman.
If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.
A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
She was powerful not because she wasn't scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.
Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong, I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.
Strong women don't play the victim. Don't make themselves look pitiful and don't point fingers. They stand and they deal.
One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.
And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.
A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.
Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.
The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.
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