899 private quotes tagged women

“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 think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.” — Reese Witherspoon

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.” — Isabel Allende

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

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“A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.” — Morris Chestnut

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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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“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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“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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“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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“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.” — Samuel Richardson

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“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.” — Wentworth Miller

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“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.” — George Jean Nathan

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