Favorite Quotes About Women
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
— Albert Einstein
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
— Ayn Rand
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
— Madeleine Albright
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
— Coco Chanel
The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
— Gloria Steinem
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Keep your heels, head, and standards high.
— Coco Chanel
Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumors come from either a man who can’t have her or a woman who can’t compete with her.
— Unknown
Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.
— Unknown
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
— Cheris Kramarae
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can hear the roar of women’s silence.
— Thomas Sankara
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
— Anaïs Nin
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
— Brigham Young
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
— Nora Ephron
When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.
— Bette Davis
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.
— Mark Twain
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
— Audrey Hepburn
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
— Madonna
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
— Coco Chanel
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
— Marilyn Monroe
She believed she could, so she did.
— Unknown
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
— Roseanne Barr
Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
— Candace Bushnell
I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
— Marilyn Monroe
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman—no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.
— Gail Sheehy
The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.
— Charles Malik
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.
— Anne Sweeney
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.
— Amy Poehler
Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.
— G.D. Anderson
When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.
— Jane Galvin Lewis
Little girls with dreams become women with a vision.
— Unknown
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.
— Coco Chanel
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.’
— Anne Hathaway
I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on own side.
— Maya Angelou
‘What’s your favorite position?’ ‘CEO.’
— Lauren Conrad
Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.
— Nelson Mandela
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
— Byron Katie
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
— Joseph Conrad
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
— Lois Wyse
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.
— Simone de Beauvoir
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
— Maya Angelou
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
— Margaret Thatcher
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
— Hillary Clinton
Best Respect Women Quotes
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
— Victor Hugo.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
— Lawrence Sterne.
A real man never hurts a woman. Be a real man and respect women.
— Unknown
If you don’t respect her, you obviously don’t deserve her.
— Unknown
She is a Woman, she is a Mother, she is a Daughter, she is a Wife, she is a Sister. Respect Female.
— Unknown
Respect for women is one of the greatest gifts a father can show a son.
— Unknown
A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.
— Tupac Amaru Shakur.
You don’t have the right to be called a man, if you not have respect for a woman.
— Avijeet Das.
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
— Ellen Barkin.
It’s a man’s job to respect women, but it’s a women’s job to give him something to respect.
— Unknown
A successful Woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.
— Unknown
She is not just a housewife who cooks your meals and washes your clothes. She is a homemaker who holds together the family and makes sure that everything is as perfect as it can be once you get home.
— Unknown
Nothing is stronger than a woman who is fighting for what she believes in.
— Unknown
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
— Buddha.
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
— Mark Wahlberg.
Men and women have roles – their roles are different but their rights are equal.
— Harri Holkeri.
A woman’s strength cannot be seen with the naked eye. It can only be felt when times get rough and she is the only one left standing.
— Unknown
If you want to be treated like a king, then treat your woman like a queen.
— Unknown
Respect is earned, not given. Deserved, not inherited.
— Unknown
We respect women and don’t insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women’s issues.
— Carly Fiorina.
Weak men dominate women!
— Avijeet Das.
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
— Milo Ventimiglia.
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman’s softness.
— Douglas William Jerrold.
This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve.
— Prince Harry.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
— Godfrey Winn.
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
— Joseph Addison.
Treat people with respect and do it with feelings too, whatever you expect others is what you have to give.
— Kemmy Nola.
We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.
— Paula Broadwell.
I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.
— Alber Elbaz.
Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.
— Drake.
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz.
Your biceps, six-pack abs, and daring attitude are of no use if you cannot protect and respect women!
— Avijeet Das.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
— Audrey Hepburn.
The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence.
— Unknown
Girls want attention, Women want respect.
— Unknown
If they don’t respect, appreciate and value you, then they don’t deserve you.
— Unknown
A Woman wants a man to protect her like a daughter, love her like a wife and respect her like a mother.
— Unknown
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have greater respect for women because of it.
— Hayden Christensen.
In some respects, a woman is superior to a man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
— Abdu’l-Bahá.
When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
— John C. Maxwell.
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya.
Stop playing with women you are not qualified for.
— Patrice Brown.
When she is happy, she is the wind that keeps me safe and comfortable. However, when she is mad, she is the storm that can destroy everything that is in her path.
— Unknown
Treat a woman right and you will be treated right in return.
— Unknown
God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
— Muhammad.
I still believe in the old-fashioned ways of showing a woman respect and honor!
— Angela Merkel.
A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt.
The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.
— Michelle Obama.
A man can build a home but it needs a woman to run a home.
— Amit Kalantri.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self-respect.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Let’s respect women for the value – let’s respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.
— Nancy Pelosi.
Let’s respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.
— Nancy Pelosi.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
— Albert Einstein.
Strong Women Quotes
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— Helen Keller
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
— Margaret Thatcher
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
— Maya Angelou
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.
— Janis Joplin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
— Anais Nin
If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.
— Al Anon
Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.
— Anita Roddick
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.
— Madonna
A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
— Mother Teresa
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
— J. K. Rowling
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
— Susan B. Anthony
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
— Susan B. Anthony
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
— Oprah Winfrey
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
— Susan B. Anthony
A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.
— Nancy Rathburn
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
— Diane Mariechild
I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
— Amelia Earhart
Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.
— Edna Gardner Whyte
The best protection any woman can have … is courage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
— Marie Curie
Success breeds confidence.
— Beryl Markham
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
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.
— Arlene Rankin
Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.
— Emily Dickinson
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
— Ayn Rand
Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope
People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.
— Princess Diana
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
— Oprah Winfrey
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 most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
— Alice Walker
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
— Maya Angelou
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
— Madame Marie du Deffand
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
— Steffi Graf
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
— Byron Katie
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
— Ruth Gordon
Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.
— Caroline Myss
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.
— Sheila Murray Bethel
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
— J. K. Rowling
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
— Rosalind Russell
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
— Margaret Sanger
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
— Marsha Evans
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
— Rhonda Hansome
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
— Rosalyn Sussman
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
— Rosalynn Carter
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
— Simone de Beauvoir
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
— Melinda Gates
Women Quotes (Inspirational)
— Desiderius Erasmus
Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
— Mao Zedong
Women hold up half the sky.
— Cher
Women are the real architects of society.
— Dick Van Dyke
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
— Phylicia Rashad
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
— Anna Held
A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
— Adrienne Rich
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
— Yul Brynner
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
— Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
— Sofia Vergara
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
— Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
— Mary Shelley
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
— Kat Graham
Farrah Fawcett
— Farrah Fawcett
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
— Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
— Erica Jong
Marilyn Monroe
— Marilyn Monroe
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
— B. R. Ambedkar
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
— Camille Paglia
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.
— Francis Bacon
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
— Charlotte Whitton
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
— Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
— John Lennon
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
— Brigitte Bardot
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
— Hillary Clinton
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
— Andrew Cuomo
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
— Evita Peron
I am my own woman.
— Margo MacDonald
Women are the sustaining force of any society – they think of the children and the next generation’s chances.
— Groucho Marx
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
— Margaret Thatcher
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
— Valentina Tereshkova
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?
— Angela Davis
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
— Audre Lorde
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
— Candace Bushnell
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
— Sidney Sheldon
Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.
— Anna Quindlen
After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
— John Barrymore
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
— Joan Jett
People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.
— William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.