Quotes about women
A collection of quotes on the topic of love, marriage, partnership, men.
Best quotes about women

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

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
As quoted in Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987) by Robert Byrne, #40

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

“I always play women I would date.”

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

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

“According to polygamy, men are royals and women so loyal.”
Quotes about women

“Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ”

“In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

When asked by a radio DJ if One Direction calls "dibs" on girls (26 June 2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV85tICyfEA&t=546

Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)

“Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers”
Context: Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers and that has come true as many women are already there in such posts.

“Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”
Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

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

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)

As quoted in "Atatürk" in Images of a Divided World (29 October 2006) http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/ataturk/
Variant translation: Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Context: Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?

“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say "yes women can".”

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.”
Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)
2000s

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament

Source: Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“Nine, nine… There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?”
In response to the question “How many women would be enough” [on the Supreme Court] during interview https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/chat-women-supreme-court-11976773 with Diane Sawyer at The Women’s Conference (Long Beach, California, October 26, 2010)

B-Side Magazine, October/November 1994
From Interviews
As quoted in Rhys Blakely, "‘I will be a god. I will slaughter you like animals’", The Australian (July 19, 2014)
Bodybuilding.com, PUAhate and ForeverAlone posts

“Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”
Interview at Brown's official site http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Context: Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html
Source: The Mark of a Man

“For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.”
Quoted in: Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce (1969), Time, Vol. 93. p. 66.
1960s

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

" Women: One Half of Our Society http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_-_One_half_of_our_society" (1981).
Source: The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
Context: The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

“Live morally, do not aspire for other's Wealth, Women and God.”
Basavanna's Preachings

National Prayer Breakfast speech, Washington, D.C. (3 February 1994) http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0039.html.
1990s

On God Gives, Man Robs , 1927. http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2005/07/05/reflections.htm

SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcxdZQCnT4&feature=PlayList&p=6DB0E6483F09B62E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1.

As quoted in NPR obituary http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/26/507022497/vera-rubin-who-confirmed-existence-of-dark-matter-dies-at-88

Le più caritative persone che sieno sono le donne, e le più fastidiose. Chi le scaccia, fugge e fastidii e l'utile; chi le intrattiene, ha l'utile ed e fastidii insieme. Ed è 'l vero che non è el mele sanza le mosche.
Act III, scene iv
The Mandrake (1524)

Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s

Source: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 235

1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)

“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.

“That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.”
A Visit With Irene Dunne (1977)

In 1926, when she addressed the bengal women's education conference http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/148459.Rokeya_Sakhawat_Hossain
Context: The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly... fie! They call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?

Designing the Future (2007)

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Source: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Context: I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
Variant: Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.”
Variant: Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
“Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.”
Source: Untamed

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 1
Source: Why I Write
Context: Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But then, if I haven't money, I DON'T speak with the tongues of men and of angels.

“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
Disputed

Source: Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
Context: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.”
Source: 1984
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
Variant: He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long

“Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.”

“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”
Je mettrais plutôt toute l'Europe d'accord que deux femmes.
Comte de Mirabeau. Esprit de Mirabeau (v.1, page 246)