Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about women

197 quotes from 127 people

Most readBy personPage 10 of 14

Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 52
- Power
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Vamps and Tramps (1994), “No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality”, p. 38
- Freedom
I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain⁠—it seems strange it should have to be explained⁠—what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women.
Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928Freedom or Death (1913)
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967Enough Rope (1926) First printed in New York World, (16 August 1925)
- Men
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato429–349 BC
- Men
- Work
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann’s Way (1913), “Swann in Love”
- Love
- Men
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Love
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson1930–2023
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (10 June 2020)
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Marriage and Morals (1929)
- Marriage
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
Saki1870–1916Reginald (1904)