Quotes of Women
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Quotes of Women

“Climb a mountain for me, swim the ocean and fight off an army for me, I will think your kind; but if you defend my honor over your own ego, I will think you are the strongest man alive.”  - Stephanie Schneider

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel

“When you repeated the vowels, love honor and respect, forsaking all others, what you were pledging was not really about some fluffy sugary romantic way of being, but you were promising to defend your partner, just as you would defend your right arm.  And if one comes to harm them with words or malice or lies, guard that arm, do not, in anger, side with the assaulter and thrust your own arm into the lion’s den to be devoured.  For then where will you be but bleeding and only half there?” – Stephanie Schneider

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

“I feel sorry for men that refer to their wives as balls and chains.  It’s sad to me because it is clear they have not yet gained the wisdom of understanding the power a woman brings; it is apparent he is clueless in his use of it, that a woman can be that of half an army for a man, a dynamic partner to accomplish otherwise impossible dreams.  It is sad to me, that he is so egocentrically and self-consumed with only what he is and in what he is alone that he cannot comprehend that uniting with another, physically weaker than he, can not only free him from simply running but can in fact teach him how to fly.”  -Stephanie Schneider

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. - John Lennon

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.'
Anna Quindlen

“Men and woman can live in peace and accomplish great things together if they would simply stop comparing themselves to one another, scaling each other on their own value scales.  That’s like measuring a diamond to the strength of a steel train; each possesses their own form of power.” – Stephanie Schneider

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. - Little Richard

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

“A man has the strength to hold the entire weight of the world on his shoulders, but it’s a woman’s heart who keeps it from dying in his arms.” – Stephanie Schneider

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn

“I wish no harm on men, I hold nothing against them.  I do, however, have no respect for a man that degrades a woman’s worth to up show his own; this is the only thing I find intolerable and makes me very angry.”  - Stephanie Schneider

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. - Audre Lorde

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. -Heinrich Heine

“I love when a man is tough enough to show pain, strong enough to break down, courageous enough to back off unnecessary fights; most especially of all, I love when a man pulls me close when I cry, instead of walking away because he doesn’t understand.”  - Stephanie Schneider

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. - Ziggy Marley

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Dorothy Day

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. - Barbra Streisand

“I never liked the words ‘woman’s lib’.  I think these words in themselves are offensive, just for the fact in the now 21st century; our liberation should no longer be what’s questioned.  What is in question is what being a woman really looks like beyond sex and appearance; and if we are bold enough and wise enough to embrace all the rest of what we are, un-ashamed.” – Stephanie Schneider

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