Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.?
Joseph Conrad quotes (English novelist, 1857-1924)
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there?
Betty Grable quotes (American film Actress, 1916-1973)
There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.?
Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)
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 quotes (American Diplomat and Playwright, 1903-1987)
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted – there is practically nothing she can’t do?
Helen Lawrenson quotes
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature?
Petronius quotes
Personally, I think if a women hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s 24, she may be lucky?
Deborah Kerr quotes
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive?
Leslie McIntyre quotes
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones?
Helena Rubinstein quotes (Polish born American Philanthropist and cosmetician, 1870-1965)
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.?
Mae West quotes (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)
?If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.?
Dave Barry quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
?The three words women most want to hear from a man are, “You lost weight”?
Lori Gottlieb quotes
?I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.?
Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)
?A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things?
Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez quotes
?I am my own woman.?
Evita Per?n quotes (Argentinian Politician, Actress and Dancer. First Lady of Argentina (married to Juan Per?n) 1919-1952)
?Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment?
Arnold Bennett quotes (British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist, 1867-1931)
?American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers?
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
?Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend?
Homer quotes (Greek poet presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 9th-8th century bc)
?I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.?
Dolly Parton quotes (Popular American country Singer and Actress, b.1946)
?A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.?
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
?A woman on time is one in nine?
?No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society?
Naomi Wolf quotes
?A woman is no older than she looks?
?Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the marriage?
Melissa Sadoff quotes
?Most women’s magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.?
Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)
?A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm?
Edgar Saltus quotes
?Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor?
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
