Smarter Women Quotes

Women are smarter than men because they listen. ~ Phil Donahue

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators. ~ Shannon L. Alder

That in the face of smarter women it was best to beat a continuous retreat, to slash and burn one's own personal convictions before their sure-footed advance. ~ Gary Shteyngart

The hair is the richest ornament of women. ~ Martin Luther

Reading makes you smarter. It really does. ~ Janette Rallison

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. ~ Kevin Watkins

There was a sting in this arithmetic: in knowing that in the divine calculus of heaven, one man could balance the equation for countless women. (Regarding polygamy) ~ Tara Westover

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it. ~ Bob Newhart

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. ~ Oscar Wilde

I love being a woman and being a friend to other women,' should be feminism's tagline. ~ Brittney Cooper

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room. ~ Keith Olbermann

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me. ~ Cory Doctorow

All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil. ~ Helena S. Paige

Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?"
"A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that."
"If that's what the whole world knows, ... then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her. ~ Barbara Cohen

Hearing old macho men, our uncles, calling themselves "Bra". Like women underwear. ~ Zukiswa Wanner

The fate of some women: "She was beyond gorgeous. And damaged as hell. Why did those two always seem to go together? ~ Marc Grossberg

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. ~ Kristin Hannah

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera. ~ Sela Ward

This idea undermining GIRLHOOD, that saying I feel for you to a woman unlike yourself means you somehow share in her experience, is one of the pitfalls that plagues mainstream feminism. It signals to women of colour that their stories are only worth telling if a white person can understand them, and therefore that a white person's emotions and responses are of greater importance than the stories themselves. ~ Morgan Jerkins

Nate took the sheet. It was covered in the neat, curvy handwriting so many women mastered and men almost never did. The top half was the message, recopied in the same Cyrillic that it had been on the wall. Below it was the translation in English. ~ Peter Clines

The first comfort women didn't actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993 acknowledgement on this. It's called the Kono Agreement. But in recent years, South Korea has been wanting an apology to go much further. ~ Elise Hu

Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women. ~ Jesse Peyronel

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it. ~ Learned Hand

Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Oh! what lies we women have to tell! When we are mothers, we tell lies to pacify our children; and when we are wives, we tell lies to pacify the fathers of our children. We are never free from this necessity. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

This world is bursting with silenced women and girls who have stories that need to be screamed, or whispered, or sang. ~ Rachel Kann

You drop my name again, I'll hunt you down and cut off everything that protrudes from your body. You get me? ~ Kristen Ashley

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young. ~ Bob Dylan

But if there is to be a fifth wave of feminism, I would hope that the main thing that distinguishes it from all that came before is that women counter the awkwardness, disconnect, and bullshit of being a modern woman not by shouting at it, internalizing it, or squabbling about it - but by simply pointing at it and going "HA!" instead. ~ Caitlin Moran

There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses. ~ Lynsey Dyer

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women ~ John Hersey

We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together! ~ Anna Akhmatova

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. ~ Barbara Walters

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women. ~ Agatha Christie

The men drink a third beer, then a fourth, in preparation for the cold trip crosstown.
"I wish I could meet a decent woman."
Howard, who has learned the great secret, and who after beer, is generous: "Go to a library. ~ Jack Cady

We are women. We talk. We all do. I love to talk. It's my reason for being. No. It's my raison d'etre. Now that is fucking classy. Not everyone has one. A classy one. Anyway. ~ Suzy Valtsioti

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light ... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. ~ Susan Vreeland

these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. ~ Lucille Clifton

You look like a Greek God, not to attract me per say, but to be attractive to all. It's part of your power, your persuasive way. It's also part of the evil, to make it harder for you to remain good. Evil doesn't just come in the form of a monster, it comes in the form of a beautiful woman, a temptress if you will, in the form of sin. With your incredible good looks, women will be more drawn to you, which could tempt you to evil's sin; a curse, as well as a gift. ~ Deborah Ann

In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. ~ Eleanor Catton

Too much shit has been written about Gypsies, mostly by American women who've never even talked to a Gypsy, let alone spent time in their company, but whose claim to fame is that their parents were at Woodstock. ~ Karl Wiggins

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now. ~ Barbara Hershey

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ~ Marguerite Duras

Remember to draw a line between being nice in a strong way and simply being a people pleaser.

Nice: Positive, yet honest and straightforward.
People pleaser: Sweeping things under the rug to avoid making waves. ~ Fran Hauser

He was a man who adored women, and understood their wrath. In other words, he feared them. ~ J.D. Robb

I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast. ~ Faith Sullivan

Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, take care of the children, clean the house and cook a bit and the men need the chairs. The men sit because they are worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world's pro less and wondering what to do with the rest of the day. ~ Frank McCourt

You're probably right. The unruliness of the women in your family must go back for generations. You're like a plague upon the land." "So long as we're also a plague upon angels, I'm sure everyone else will forgive us." "Oh, you're definitely a plague upon at least one angel. Is ~ Susan Ee