Women

(54 votes)   Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar
c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright

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(54 votes)   The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(53 votes)   It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Paul Geraldy

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(53 votes)   Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.

Terry Goodkind

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(52 votes)   Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Don Delillo
1926-, American Author

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(52 votes)   It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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(52 votes)   The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Jeannette Rankin
1880-1973, American Feminist and Pacifist

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(51 votes)   In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

Dave Barry

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(51 votes)   They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce

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(51 votes)   Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright

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(50 votes)   Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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(50 votes)   The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(50 votes)   We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters.

Lady Jane Wilde

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(50 votes)   When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.

Mary Ingraham Bunting

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(49 votes)   I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?

Madonna
1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress,

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