899 private quotes tagged women

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.” — Rudyard Kipling

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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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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.” — Alexander Pope

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“Women. They are a complete mystery.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.” — Samuel Butler

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“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.” — George Burns

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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“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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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Men's vows are women's traitors!” — William Shakespeare

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