Women and Men Quotes
Top 30 Women and Men
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-wollstonecraft.jpg)
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves
- Mary
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), English pioneer of women’s rights, pictured right.
No 2![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-graham.jpg)
Power has no sex
- Katharine Graham (1917-2001), owner of the
Washington Post, pictured right.
No 3![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-friedan.jpg)
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
- Betty Friedan, pictured right ,The
Feminine Mystique (1963).
Friedan also comments:
Men will only be truly liberated to love women, and to be fully themselves, when women are liberated,
No 4![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-sanger.jpg)
Woman must not accept, she must challenge.
- Margaret Sanger (1879-1966),
American feminist, pictured right.
No 5![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-stanton.jpg)
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
- Elizabeth Cady
Stanton (1815-1902), American feminist, pictured right.
No 6![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-monroe.jpg)
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),
American film star (pictured right).
No 7![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-wilde.jpg)
All women become like their mothers. That is their
tragedy. No man does. That's his.
(from The Importance of Being
Earnest)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish
writer, pictured right.
No 8![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-congreve.jpg)
Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.
(from the 1697 poem The Mourning Bride)
- William Congreve (1670-1729), pictured right, English writer.
No 9![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house,
(Bella in the 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70),
pictured right, English writer.
No 10![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-barbauld.jpg)
Yes, injured woman! rise, assert thy right!
(from the 1792 poem The Rights of Woman)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), pictured right, English writer.
No 11![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-gay.jpg)
She who has never loved, has never lived.
(from the 1724 play The Captives)
- John Gay (1685-1732), pictured right, English writer.
No 12
A woman is like a teabag -only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962), pictured right, American human rights campaigner
![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-reagan-nancy.jpg)
(later said by Nancy Reagan (1921- ), pictured right below, wife of the American
president, Ronald Reagan)
No 13![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-marx-groucho.jpg)
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right.
Marx also says:
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
No 14![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-beauvoir.jpg)
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
- Simone de Beauvoir, pictured
right.,Second Sex (1949)
No 15![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-nightingale.jpg)
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity...and a place in society where no one of the three can be
exercised?
- Florence
Nightingale (1820-1910), English nurse, pictured right.
No 16![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-stone-lucy.jpg)
A woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children.
- Lucy Stone (1818-93), American
campaigner for women’s rights, pictured right.
No 17![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-cohen-leonard.jpg)
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
- Leonard Cohen, pictured right, The Favourite Game (1963)
No 18![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-aung.jpg)
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-), pictured
right,Burmese political leader
No 19![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-freud.jpg)
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),
Austrian psychiatrist, pictured right.
No 20![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-cher.jpg)
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
- Cher (1946- ), pictured right, American singer and actress.
No 21![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-lenin.jpg)
When women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them.
- Lenin (1870-1924), pictured right, Russian
leader.
No 22![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-arden.jpg)
Every woman has the right to be beautiful.
- Elizabeth Arden (1884-1966), pictured
right, Canadian-born American cosmetics boss.
![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-lauder.jpg)
Estée Lauder (1906-2004), pictured right,
another American cosmetics boss, also comments:
Beauty is an attitude...There are no ugly women, only women who don’t care or who don’t believe they’re
attractive
![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-west.jpg)
No 23
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
- Mae West, the American actress, pictured right, in the 1933 film, She Done Him
Wrong.
No 24![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-chanel.jpg)
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress,
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971),
French fashion designer and businesswoman (pictured right).
No 25![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotesjong.jpg)
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- Erica Jong (1942- ), pictured right, American writer.
No 26![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-simpson-homer.jpg)
Marge, I’m going to miss you so much. And it’s not just the sex! It’s also the food preparation.,
- Homer Simpson, pictured right, American cartoon character (speaking to his wife, Marge).
No 27![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-austen.jpg)
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it
(from the 1817 novel Persuasion)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), pictured
right, English writer.
In Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma Emma
Woodhouse also comments:
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other,
No 28 ![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotesdiana.jpg)
If men had to have babies, they would only have one each.
- Princess Diana (1961-97), pictured right, in late pregnancy with Prince Harry.
No 29![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-bronte-charlotte.jpg)
Women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts,
(from the 1847 novel Jane Eyre)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-55),
English writer, pictured right
No 30![Women and Men Quotes Women and Men Quotes](images/quotes-mannes.jpg)
The ultimate by-product of women's liberation is the liberation of men from the incubus of having to seal
themselves up in an office for 40 years to support a totally dependent wife,
- Marya Mannes (1904-90), pictured right, American writer.
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