Quotes about women
197 quotes from 127 people
Lady Gagaborn 1986Cosmopolitan (April 2010).
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Mohandas Gandhi, 17th October 1929. Quoted in Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Judith M. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1998 (pp. 228-9)To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (10 April 1930)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Interview with Joan Biskupic, “Ginsburg: Court needs another woman”, USA Today (May 2009)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Heaven, last lineActresses can only play women. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldbergborn 1955Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991), Introduction
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1950)History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry1862–1910Roads of Destiny (1909)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
