Quotes about women

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

Erica Jong

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must ensure that globalisation benefits not only the powerful but also the men, women and children whose lives are ravaged by poverty.

Nelson Mandela

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

Serena Williams

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Mother Teresa

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Woody Allen