899 private quotes tagged women

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“It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.”— Sheryl Sandberg
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“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.”— Sheryl Sandberg
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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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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”— Ronald Reagan
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“The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”— H. L. Mencken
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“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”— John F. Kennedy
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“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Men's vows are women's traitors!”— William Shakespeare
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“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”— Walt Whitman
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”— C. S. Lewis
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”— George Eliot
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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”— William Butler Yeats
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”— Thomas Paine
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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”— Francis Bacon
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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”— George Eliot
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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”— George Washington