899 private quotes tagged women

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” — Rebecca West

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“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

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“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.” — Victor Hugo

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“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.” — Samuel Butler

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“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.” — Gary Oldman

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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” — Coco Chanel

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“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

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“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.” — Adam Sandler

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“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“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

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“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“I hate women because they always know where things are.” — Voltaire

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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.” — H. L. Mencken

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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” — Will Rogers

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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

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