899 private quotes tagged women

“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” — Cher

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“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

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“A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.” — Barbara Cartland

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“In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.” — Earl Warren

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“Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” — Florence Nightingale

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“After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.” — Mel Gibson

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“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.” — Jon Meacham

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“Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.” — Helen Reddy

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“Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Men and women have strengths that complement each other.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.” — George Santayana

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“Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.” — Madeleine Albright

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“But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.” — Bette Davis

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“You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.” — Billie Jean King

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“In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.” — Clara Zetkin

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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.” — Steve Harvey

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“I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.” — Marilyn Manson

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“That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.” — Donald Trump

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