7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Alexandre Dumas
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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- Author Mary Wollstonecraft
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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
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- Author Nora Ephron
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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]
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- Author Madonna
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I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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- Author Wilkie Collins
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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
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- Author Greta Garbo
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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
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- Author D.H. Lawrence
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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- Author Jane Austen
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
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