Quotes about women

Women are amazing creatures – sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Robert A. Heinlein

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.

Sheryl Sandberg

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Virginia Woolf

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Abraham Lincoln

While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward.

John F. Kennedy

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Walt Whitman

I write a woman’s oaths in water.

Sophocles

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

Jean de La Bruyere