Quotes about women

It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Walt Whitman

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

William Faulkner

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice – she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye – and my grandmother gave me condoms.

Usher

Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they’re solid, they can pick up the whole world.

Suze Orman

So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Abraham Lincoln

An Irishman’s imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can’t face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be ‘agreeable to strangers’, like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

George Bernard Shaw

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

J. K. Rowling

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

Yves Saint Laurent

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

Helen Fisher