Quotes about women
197 quotes from 127 people
- MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing, too.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menGood-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menThere is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
Madeleine Albright1937–2022Keynote speech at “Celebrating Inspiration” luncheon with the WNBA’s All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menAny woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.- SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 31
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Granite and Rainbow (1958), “Women and Fiction”Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 377As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
John Buchan1875–1940The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XIHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry1862–1910Roads of Destiny (1909)