Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
~By Tina Louise ~
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
~By John Norman ~
I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
~By Lauren Hutton ~
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
~By Jason Mewes ~
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
~By Herodotus ~
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
~By Norma Shearer ~
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
~By Karl Kraus ~
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
~By George Balanchine ~
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
~By Lillie Langtry ~
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
~By Roger Vadim ~
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
~By Asne Seierstad ~
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
~By Claudette Colbert ~
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
~By Betty Friedan ~
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
~By Naomi Watts ~
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~By Enid Bagnold ~
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
~By Lord Byron ~
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
~By Emily Murphy ~
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I'm just a tough old woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
~By John Lee Hooker ~
Every casting director I've met is a woman.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.
~By Joe Davis ~
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
~By Ang Lee ~
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
~By Matthew Perry ~
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
~By Sharon Gless ~
That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
~By Karen McDougal ~
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
~By Dido Armstrong ~
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
~By Mary Daly ~
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
~By Charles V ~
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
~By Gene Simmons ~
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
~By Jim DeMint ~
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
~By Tony Campolo ~
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
~By Queen Victoria ~
I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.
~By Carol Alt ~
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
~By Geena Davis ~
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
~By Alan Alda ~
Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.
~By John Galliano ~
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
~By Jim Costa ~
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
~By Suzi Quatro ~
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
~By Alan Bleasdale ~
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
~By Barbara Dale ~
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
~By Sophocles ~
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.
~By Scott Caan ~
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
~By John Updike ~
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
~By Sloan Wilson ~
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
~By June Jordan ~
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
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