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Jerry Stahl SOAPY You know, feisty women never get boring. JOEL Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.
Ursula K. LeGuin The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.
SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._ Honor to women! to them it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven.
Anna Russell The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
Lyndon B. Johnson I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)
Henry Truman I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
H.L. Mencken Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
William W. Purkey The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and
Gloria Steinem Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
George Burns I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
Eric Hoffer Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from
Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
Hilaire Belloc The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign: (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
Jane Austen As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Eric Lustbader Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
Georges Pompidou There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Marya Mannes If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Mary Schmich Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Wollstonecraft Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
Martina Navratilova I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
Marcel Archard Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Billy Crystal Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Lady Nancy Astor I married beneath me. All women do.
Godfather, The Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.
Franklin P. Jones All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Edgar Degas There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Con.,_ Act iii. O, sir! I must not tell my age. They say women and music should never be dated.
Mort Sahl The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Timothy Leary Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Katharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _The Three Fishers._ Men must work, and women must weep.
Aristotle Onassis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Saville Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Robert A. Heinlein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
George Santayana Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
Stephen Stills There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Stephen Stills There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
Louisa May Alcott I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Nancy Drew If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible.
Bella Abzug Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
Clare Boothe Luce They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Elizabeth II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 4. Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women?merely adored.
Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
"Women aren's people, they're women." - Dr. Ira Graves
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Because the women are watching.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
Women do come with instructions; ask them.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
If you don't think women are explosive, drop one..
There are 2 ways to handle women and I know neither.
There are two ways to handle women, and I know neither.
If you don't think women are explosive, drop one!
Uppity Women Unite!
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
9 out of 10 men who try camels prefer women.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
League of Bloodthirsty Women
I married beneath me - all women do.
I like women with big... HEARTS! YEAH! THAT's it!
Women! Can't live with 'em and no resale value.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Women - can't live with 'em and no resale value...
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.
Real women don't deflate when you bite them ...
Men play the game; women know the score.
Women, can't live with'um, can't shoot'um.
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
I like two kinds of women: domestic and foreign.

 

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