Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert A. Heinlein

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

- Chance, Joseph Conrad

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

- Brigham Young

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

- Mae West

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

- When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?, George Carlin

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

- John Lennon

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

- Coco Chanel

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

- Nora Ephron

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

- Bette Davis

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

- Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Persuasion, Jane Austen

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

- Mark Twain

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

- Elizabeth Peters

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

- Virginia Woolf

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

- Anaïs Nin

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

- Strange Angels, Lilith Saintcrow

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

- Robert Jordan

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

- Madonna

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

- Mae West

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

- Audrey Hepburn

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

- Neil Gaiman

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

- The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman, Coco Chanel

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

- Oscar Wilde

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

- Virginia Woolf

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

- Ann Richards

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

- Coco Chanel

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

- Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

- Cheris Kramarae

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

- Oscar Wilde

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

- Yves Saint-Laurent

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

- Wit & Wisdom of Mae West, Mae West

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

- Mae West

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

- Cher

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

- Betty Friedan

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

- Selected Letters, Martha Gellhorn

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

- Mae West

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

- Diana of the Crossways, George Meredith

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

- Katharine Hepburn

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

- Jane Austen

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

- T.D. Jakes

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

- Richard III, William Shakespeare

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

- Diaries of Adam & Eve, Mark Twain

A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

- The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

- Young Rebecca: Writings, Rebecca West

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

- C. JoyBell C.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

- Zadie Smith

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

- Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

- The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

- Roman Payne

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

- Gloria Steinem

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

- Edgar Allan Poe

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

- Sunset Gun: Poems, Dorothy Parker

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

- Alice Walker

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

- Attachments, Rainbow Rowell

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

- Henny Youngman

I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

- The Romance of Judge Ketchum, Horace Annesley Vachell

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

- Powder And Patch, Georgette Heyer

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

- Jeanne d'Arc

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

- The Folk of the Fringe, Orson Scott Card

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

- Watermelon, Marian Keyes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

- Irina Dunn

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

- Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

- Margaret Sanger

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

- The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set, Robert Jordan

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

- Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

- The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

- Gilda Radner

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.

- Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

- Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay, Jane Austen

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

- The Revolution and Woman in Iraq, Saddam Hussein

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

- Shannon L. Alder

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

- Of Love and Shadows, Isabel Allende

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

- Charles Caleb Colton

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

- Margaret Atwood

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

- Carolyn McCulley

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

- Gloria Steinem

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

- Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

- A Wallflower Christmas, Lisa Kleypas

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

- Quote Me Everyday, Santosh Kalwar

Only cowards torture women.

- Raven's Shadow, Patricia Briggs

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

- Audre Lorde