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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)In context
- Age
- Women
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Men
- Women
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Women
Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Women
Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (31 July 1763) p. 132. [Several editions have the variant “hind legs”.]
- Clever Jabs
- Women
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), p. 91, tr. R.J. HollingdaleIn context
- Men
- Women
When love once pleas admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene i
- Love
- Women
I am uncompromising in the matter of woman’s rights. In my opinion she should labour under no legal disability not suffered by man, I should treat the daughters and sons on a footing of perfect equality.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Mohandas Gandhi, 17th October 1929. Quoted in Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Judith M. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1998 (pp. 228-9)
- Women
Four things greater than all things are,⁠—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Other works
- War & Peace
- Women
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Female of the Species, Stanza 1 (1911).
- Women
For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
- Women
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
- Women
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906The Revolution, Women’s Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)
- Women
- Work
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947White House years (1993–2000) (September 5, 1995)
- Women
“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” So must we all.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947Tweet (8 February 2017)
- Women