1. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart
2. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey
3. No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. - W. C. Fields
4. Women are the real architects of society. - Cher
5. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong
7. If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? - Valentina Tereshkova
8. Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde
9. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. - Friedrich Nietzsche
11. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. - William Shakespeare
12. I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. - Marilyn Monroe
13. Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. - George Bernard Shaw
14. If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. - George Bernard Shaw
15. Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx
16. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. - H. L. Mencken
17. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. - H. L. Mencken
18. Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. - H. L. Mencken
19. Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. - Robert Frost
20. When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West
21. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. - Coco Chanel
22. A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. - Coco Chanel
23. I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. - Coco Chanel
24. Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. - Coco Chanel
25. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. - Coco Chanel
26. The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. - Lawrence Durrell
27. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
28. I owe nothing to Women's Lib. - Margaret Thatcher
29. It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. - Margaret Thatcher
30. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
31. Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. - Arthur Schopenhauer
32. I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. - George Eliot
33. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. - Francis Bacon
34. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. - Benjamin Disraeli
35. Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. - Lord Byron
36. Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. - Margaret Mead
37. Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. - Alice Walker
38. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. - Jane Austen
39. This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. - Henny Youngman
40. I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. - Audre Lorde
41. I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. - Georgia O'Keeffe
42. Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. - George Santayana
43. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. - Arthur Conan Doyle
44. As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. - John Lennon
45. I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. - Gloria Steinem
46. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Steinem
47. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. - Gloria Steinem
48. It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. - Hedy Lamarr
49. In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
50. In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. - Hillary Clinton
51. One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
52. There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
53. Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. - Louisa May Alcott
54. Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. - Lucille Ball
55. To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. - Angela Davis
56. Honor your daughters. They are honorable. - Malala Yousafzai
57. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. - Ambrose Bierce
58. Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. - Desiderius Erasmus
59. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. - Katharine Hepburn
60. Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. - Katharine Hepburn
61. Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. - Anatole France
62. Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. - Emma Goldman
63. Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. - Henri Frederic Amiel
64. Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. - Golda Meir
65. Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. - Josh Billings
66. Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. - James Joyce
67. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin
68. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary
69. I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. - Jennifer Lopez
70. The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. - Honore de Balzac
71. It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. - Camille Paglia
72. When anything goes, it's women who lose. - Camille Paglia
73. Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. - Camille Paglia
74. Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. - Camille Paglia
75. I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. - James Thurber
76. Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. - Isabel Allende
77. Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. - Barbra Streisand
78. Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? - Barbra Streisand
79. A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. - Barbra Streisand
80. I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. - Frank Sinatra
81. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. - Frank Sinatra
82. Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. - Jada Pinkett Smith
83. There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. - Albert Ellis
84. On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. - Julie Andrews
85. Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. - Bill Maher
86. I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. - Mary Shelley
87. Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. - Brigitte Bardot
88. I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. - Heinrich Heine
89. Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. - E. M. Forster
90. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. - B. R. Ambedkar
91. You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. - Billy Sunday
92. Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. - Corita Kent
93. Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. - Marlene Dietrich
94. Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. - Phylicia Rashad
95. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. - Barbara De Angelis
96. Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. - George Sand
97. It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. - George Clooney
98. Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. - Dick Van Dyke
99. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad
100. From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. - Sophie Tucker
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