"As many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive."

"Women, like summer storms, awhile are cloudy, Burst out in thunder and impetuous showers: But straight the sun of beauty dawns abroad, And all the fair horizon is serene."

"Beshrew my heart, but it is wond’rous strange; Sure there is something more than witchcraft in them, That masters ev’n the wisest of us all."

"And one false step entirely damns her fame. In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets like stars that fall, to rise no more."

"Une femme bel-esprit est le fléau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, de tout le monde."

"Toute fille lettrée restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes sensés sur la terre."

"Le monde est le livre des femmes."

"Twilight is not good for maidens."

"Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve) That ere the snakes, her sweet tongue could deceive And her enchanted hair was the first gold— And still she sits, young while the earth is old And, subtly of herself contemplative, Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold."

"The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven."

"In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity."

"... there will be a woman President some day, but that day is not yet here. We women still have to prove ourselves, and at the present moment I do not think the country as a whole would have enough confidence in a woman, and without that confidence and cooperation she could not do a good job. Before we have a woman President we will have to have more women Governors of the States, more women in the Senate, and in Congress. The women who have served in those capacities have done good jobs, but they are far too few to create the confidence necessary"

"C'est chose qui moult me deplaist, Quand poule parle et coq se taist."

"I remember when OB tampons came out and you could hold them in your hand, and I'd walk down the hall holding my little OB tampon and I thought, "If I open my hand and show this to anybody, the whole building is going to explode.""

"Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em but I'd hate to own one."

"I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!"

"There exists a most ancient saying, "Where women are revered and safeguarded, prosperity reigns and the gods rejoice.""

"Woman must raise herself to such a degree, spiritually, morally and intellectually, that it will enable her to carry man with her. ... She must become not only an equal cooperator in the management of the whole life, but also an inspirer. The greatest task is to spiritualize and to restore the health of humanity by filling it with aspiration toward great deeds and beauty. But woman must first of all change herself!"

"You can fuck a woman with a diamond dick and make her cum ten times, and she'll still complain. "Why did you make me cum so hard? This diamond dick is cloudy, why didn't you go to Tiffany's?""

"Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder."

"Love a woman? You're an ass! 'Tis a most insipid passion To choose out for your happiness The silliest part of God's creation."

"Men grow cold as girls grow old And we all lose our dreams in the end, But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape: Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

"O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire."

"With women there can be no lasting friendship: hearts of hyenas are the hearts of women."

"A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with."

"Such a plot must have a woman in it."

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes."

"Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact."

"That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em."

"And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne."

"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."

"Las mujeres son espejo Que viendo vuestro retrato, Si os descuidais y otro llega, Hará con él otro tanto."

"De Carlos el Rey es hija, Mas es muger, y ha mas años La mudanza en las mugeres, Que no la nobleza en Carlos."

"Prés du sexe tu vins, tu vis, et tu vainquis: Que ton sort est heureux! Allons, saute Marquis!"

"I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore."

"I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. Aunt Etty was most emphatically such a person."

"Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills."

"Practice your beauty, blue girls, ere it fail, And I with my loud lips will publish Beauty that all our powers cannot establish It is so frail. For I could tell you a story which is true; I know a lady with a terrible tongue, Blear eyes fallen from blue, All her perfections tarnished — Yet it is not long Since she was lovelier than any of you."

"Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes; Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice."

": Men are more eloquent then women made: : But women are more powerfull to persuade."

"A saint does not look at women with the eye of desire; if he comes near a woman, he sees the Divine Mother in her and worships her."

"If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?"

"If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?"

"Las mujeres no quieren en un hombre sino que otorgue; supuesto que ellas piden siempre."

"Quien no ama con todos sus cinco sentidos una mujer hermosa, no estima á la naturaleza su mayor cuidado y su mayor obra."

"Like to the falling of a star, * * * * Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree."

"Чем меньше женщину мы любим, Тем легче нравимся мы ей. И тем ее вернее губим. Средь обольстительных сетей."

"Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayest make princes in all lands."

"The King’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee."

"Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours."