- “There are three easy ways to lose money: racing is the fastest, women are the nicest, and farming is the safest.”
–Lord Amherst - I got married below me. All women do it.
–Lady Nancy Astor - “Women love a lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.”
–Gertrude Atherton - “It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time.”
–Tallulah Bankhead - “If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving a baby’s life, she’ll choose saving the baby’s life without even considering whether there are men on base.”
–Dave Barry - “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who turned down the dessert cart.”
–Erma Bomback - “I’m the kind of woman that when I walk into a party, all the other women leave the room…I think I scare people…I’m a bad girl.”
–Lara Flynn Boyle - “Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Women are like cats. Yell at a cat once…they’re gone.”
–Lenny Bruce - “Bandits demand your money or your life; women demand both.”
–Samuel Butler - “What a strange thing is the man and what a strange thing the woman”.
–Lord Byron - “Most great men and women do not have perfectly rounded personalities, but are people whose single driving enthusiasm is so great that it makes their flaws seem insignificant.”
–Charles A. Cerami - “The problem with some women is that they get excited about nothing ~ and then they marry him.”
— Dear - “Heaven does not have a fury like love turned into hate, nor does hell have a fury, like a woman scorned.”
–William Congreve - “Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three-dollar pantyhose that won’t run.”
–Phyllis Diller - “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. ~ An optimist is one who expects them to be.”
–Senator Chauncey Depew - “Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then approaches him deserves all the consequences.”
–Isadora Duncan - Let’s treat men and women well, treat them as if they were real. Maybe they are.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson - “A woman can look both moral and exciting, if she also looks like she’s a great fight.”
–Edna Ferber - “The big question ~ that I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research on the female soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'”
— Sigmund Freud - “There is nothing so bad in this world that a sensible woman cannot fix in the course of an afternoon.”
–Giraudoux - “Instead of remarrying, I’ll find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.”
–Lewis Grizzard - “A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s. She changes it more often.”
–Oliver Herford - “The man has a will, but the woman gets her way.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes - “One of the hardest things in the world is convincing a woman that even a bargain costs money.”
–Edgar Watson Howe - “A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”
–Elbert Hubbard - “The whole life of a woman is a story of affections”.
–Washington Irving - “You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
— Erica Jong - “A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.”
–Rudyard Kipling - “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.'” ~ ‘ They will say: ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
–Clare Boothe-Luce - “Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
–Groucho Marx - “A woman will always sacrifice if you give her the chance. It’s her favorite form of self-indulgence.”
–W. Somerset Maughan - “High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
–Christopher Darlington Morley - “I wonder why young men are always warned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It’s the good girls that men should be warned against.”
–David Niven - “If women did not exist, all the money in the world would be meaningless.”
–Aristotle Onassis - “Women are like tea bags, put them in hot water and they get stronger.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt - “Not being there when a man wants her is a woman’s biggest sin, except being there when he doesn’t want her.”
–Helen Rowland - “Men forget everything; women remember everything. That’s why men need instant replays in sports. They already forgot what happened.”
–Rita Rudner - “Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men and I gave her the common sense answer that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, the total gambling instinct of women is satisfied. by marriage”.
–Gloria Steinem - “Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it’s important for a woman to have a man. What they don’t understand is the pathetically small difference WHAT man makes.”
–Gloria Steinen - “There are worse occupations in this world than taking a woman’s pulse.”
–Laurence Stern - “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s clothes and then complain that he is not the man she married?”
–Barbara Streisand - “Men at best differ like Heaven and Earth, but women, the worst and the best, like Heaven and Hell.”
–Alfred Lord Tennyson - “It’s strange what a man can do, and a woman thinks she’s an angel.”
–William Makepeace Thackeray - “I hate women because they always know where things are.”
–James Thurber - “From birth to 18, a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, a good personality. From 55, she needs good money. I’m saving my money “.
–Sophie Tucker - “Women are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one can make your dreams come true.”
–Unknown - “When women mess up, men chase them.”
–Mae West - “I myself have never been able to figure out precisely what feminism is; I just know that people call me a feminist every time I express feelings that differentiate me from a doormat.”
–Rebecca West - “Anything women have to do, they have to do twice as well as men to be considered half as good. Luckily, this isn’t hard.”
–Charlotte Whitton - “I would venture to assume that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
–Virginia Woolf
“Feminism’s agenda is basic: It calls for women not to be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.”
–Susan Faludi