Quotes by Authors - Page 40

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think feel experience with a man they are in love with is still very small.
Doris Lessing
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
Nellie McClung
The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.
Anonymous
She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
Anthony Delano
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
Woman's place is in the wrong.
James Thurber
When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
John Weitz
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Compton Mackenzie
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Some women blush when they are kissed some call for the police some swear some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Anonymous
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
Jules Michelet
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Margaret Mead
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife good mother good looking good tempered well groomed and unaggressive.
Leslie M. Mclntyre
Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.
Barbey d'Aurevilly
If a woman likes another woman she's cordial. If she doesn't like her she's very cordial.
Irvin S. Cobb
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
Laurence J. Peter
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Peggy Joyce
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.
Sally Kempton
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
Germaine Greer
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Colette
Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Evan Esar
One is not born a woman - one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
Nellie McClung
The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.
Patricia C. Beudoin
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman for I do care.
Nellie McClung
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
Helen Lawrenson
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?
Virginia Woolf
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Charlotte Perkins
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Edgar Watson Howe
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
Anonymous
No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
Anonymous
When wealth is lost nothing is lost When health is lost something is lost When character is lost all is lost!
Anonymous
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
Anonymous
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."
Anonymous
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
Anonymous
Sex is like money only too much is enough.
John Updike
Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
Woody Allen
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Anonymous
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
Anonymous
Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Lionel Strachey
If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Stendhal
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
Too caustic? To hell with cost we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.
Samuel Goldwyn
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber