Quotes about women
197 quotes from 127 people
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon: or Many Things (ed. 1822), vol. 1, p. 150- MSMarie Shear1940–2017Often credited to Cheris Kramerae
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947Keynote Address at the Vital Voices Conference in Vienna, Austria (11 July 1997)
Fannie Hurst1889–1968From speech at the National Conference of Women sponsored by “The New York Times.” Beth Blair. Women Will Have New World Status, Miami Daily News, April 27 1943, page 11A, Column 5.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Eye of AllahA woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 475 (4 September 1712)
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann’s Way (1913), “Swann in Love”What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
