Quotes about women

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It’s amazing. They don’t see any stigma attached to it. We don’t need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Erica Jong

Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn’t due as much as anything to the criminal’s instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

Ronald Reagan

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women… We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other’s successes and not delight in one another’s failures.

Michelle Obama

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Mae West

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

I like stylish men although I’m someone who sees a man who’s not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I’m a typical Jewish woman like that.

Amy Winehouse

Never ask a woman about other men. Either she’ll tell you a lie, and you still won’t know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

Malcolm X

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it’s want of character.

George Bernard Shaw