119 Women'S Quotes

In a world where inspiration is often drawn from the experiences and wisdom of others, women's voices have stood out with remarkable clarity and impact. Whether offering insights on strength, resilience, love, or ambition, the words of women from diverse backgrounds continue to resonate deeply. We've carefully curated a collection of the top 119 women’s quotes that capture their wit, wisdom, and unwavering spirit. As you explore these quotes, allow them to inspire, motivate, and empower you on your own journey.

1. “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.” - Khaled Hosseini

2. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” - Oscar Wilde

3. “The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.” - John Elderedge

4. “A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.” - Caroline Mytinger

5. “It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.” - Charles Dickens

6. “If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.” - Arthur Golden

7. “Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.” - James Joyce

8. “There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still she lingers in our midst. She reigned in many an early Victorian castle, and was Queen of much early Victorian song. It is sweet to protect her in the intervals of business, sweet to pay her honour when she has cooked our dinner well. But alas! the creature grows degenerate. In her heart also there are springing up strange desires. She too is enamoured of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea. She has marked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war--a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the receding heavens. Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive. Before the show breaks up she would like to drop the august title of the Eternal Woman, and go there as her transitory self.” - E. M. Forster

9. “Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.” - Erica Jong

10. “I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me...” - Masashi Kishimoto

11. “Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.” - Jimmy Santiago Baca

12. “A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. ” - Ginnetta Correli

13. “I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.” - Sidney Sheldon

14. “What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?” - Grantly Dick-Read

15. “Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.” - Rudyard Kipling

16. “Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.” - Mario Puzo

17. “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” - Karl Lagerfeld

18. “We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.” - Marianne Williamson

19. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” - Marianne Williamson

20. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

21. “The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.” - Karl Lagerfeld

22. “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

23. “Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense” - Gregory Maguire

24. “But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.” - Norman Maclean

25. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” - Diane Mariechild

26. “If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

27. “They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.” - Anais Nin

28. “I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.” - Patricia Mulcahy

29. “Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?”You mean if he’ll be a good husband?” She pauses, then says “The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him.”Shouldn’t it be equal?”Mom cackles. “It can never be equal.”But what if the woman loves the man more?”A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are.” - Adriana Trigiani

30. “I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.” - Omar Sharif

31. “Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.” - Walter Scott

32. “I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.” - A.W. Tozer

33. “I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.” - George Meredith

34. “People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.” - Julia Roberts on Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman"

35. “Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes.” - Santosh Kalwar

36. “A womans mistakes are different from a girls” - Janet Fitch

37. “She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.” - Peggy Webb

38. “My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.” - Charlaine Harris

39. “لا تعتذر لامرأة عن أي خطأ، لأنك ستبقى متهما عندها حتى لو عرفت بعدك ألف رجل” - أنيس منصور

40. “My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)” - Marie Mutsuki Mockett

41. “احملي هذا الاسم بكبرياء أكبر.. ليس بالضرورة بغرور، ولكن بوعي عميق أنّك أكثر من امرأة. أنتِ وطن بأكمله.. هل تعين هذا؟ ليس من حقِّ الرموز أن تتهشم.. هذا زمن حقير، إذا لم ننحز فيه إلى القيّم سنجد أنفسنا في خانة القاذورات والمزابل. لا تنحازي لشيء سوى المبادئ.. لا تجاملي أحداً سوى ضميرك.. لأنك في النهاية لا تعيشين مع سواه!” - أحلام مستغانمي

42. “ليلتها، كنت قاسياً معها.. لكنني لم أعاتبها خشية أن تعاود الغياب.. ولم تسألني هي عن سبب خشونتي، ربما لأنها كانت تدرك أسبابه!.. كنت خائفاً جداً لأنني أعرف بأنني قاب قوسين أو أدنى من اختفائها!..سألتها بعد ذلك بأيام: كيف تفعلين هذا؟!.. كيف تختفين فجأ وتظهرين فجأة؟!..قالت بسخرية: أتظن بأنني ساحرة؟!..- لماذا تجيبين الأسئلة بالأسئلة؟!..” - أثير عبدالله النشمي

43. “I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!” - C. JoyBell C.

44. “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” - Virginia Woolf

45. “It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused” - Amit Abraham

46. “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

47. “101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.” - Summersdale Publishers

48. “All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.” - T.F. Hodge

49. “Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.” - Fadi Hattendorf

50. “There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.” - Jorge Luis Borges

51. “But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.” - John Wyndham

52. “Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.” - Larissa Ione

53. “When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.” - Jeanette Winterson

54. “Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.” - Donna Woolfolk Cross

55. “There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

56. “you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.” - Thomas Hardy

57. “You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?” - j.m.g. le clezio

58. “A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.” - Ai Yazawa

59. “I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?” - Sharon Sala

60. “A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.” - Arnold Haultain

61. “A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though.” - Tom Delay

62. “When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” - Akhenaton

63. “I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.” - Gregor Golob

64. “All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.” - Harriet Jones

65. “I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.” - Glines Abbi

66. “Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.” - Willa Cather

67. “Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.” - Willa Cather

68. “Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.” - Steve Maraboli

69. “For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.” - Zora Neale Hurston

70. “Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.” - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

71. “In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!” - Roman Payne

72. “A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.” - Stephen King

73. “A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy” - John Irving

74. “I am the woman at the water’s edge,offering you oranges for the peeling,knife glistening in the sun.This is the scent and tasteof my skin: citon and sweet.Touch me and your life will unfoldbefore you, easily as this skirtbillows then sinks,lapping against my legs, my toesfiltering through the rivers silt.Following the current out to sea,I am the kind of womanwho will come back to hauntyour dreams, move through yourhumid nights the way honeyswirls through a cup of hot tea” - Shara McCallum

75. “There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” - William Shakespeare

76. “It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.” - Henryk Sienkjewicz

77. “How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?” - Christine de Pizan

78. “Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.” - Francis Parker Yockey

79. “The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one” - Josh Stern

80. “She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.” - Margaret Rome

81. “المجتمع الجاهل يغتفر للرجل إنحرافه، ويقتل المرأة على إنحرافها، مع أن الشريعة أوجبت على كلٍ منهما الإستقامة، وأنكرت من كلٍ منهما الإنحراف، وأوجبت لكلٍ منهما الستر حين الزلل، وحتّمت عقوبة كل منهما حين تثبت الجريمة، فمن أين جاءهم الفرق بين الرجل والمرأة في العقوبة والغفران؟” - مصطفى السباعي

82. “It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42” - Alaa Al Aswany

83. “Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards” - Ayn Rand

84. “The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.” - William Blake

85. “Ако жените поискат, пролетта идва рано.” - Hacer Yeni

86. “There is a shade of red for every woman.” - Audrey Hepburn

87. “Women already come equipped with a core of steel fiber strength, depths of resolve a man cannot comprehend. It’s not the dynamic strength men have, all power and show. It’s a strength of endurance, fortitude. It is the strength that allows women to conceive life and to carry that life until the day it can stand on its own.” - James R. Tuck

88. “You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.” - Lisa Cach

89. “Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant "existing things" does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like “woman,” “butch,” “lesbian,” or “transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism.” - Gayle Rubin

90. “You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.” - Wally Lamb

91. “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” - Coco Chanel

92. “The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.” - Eve Marie Mont

93. “Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.” - C.T.

94. “Women are extraordinary creatures!” - Roman Payne

95. “Every woman needs a man.” - Missy Lyons

96. “Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

97. “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it” - Jacques Cousteau

98. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “A woman's beauty should not imitate art.” - Lionel Suggs

100. “she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever” - Sophie Kinsella

101. “There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.” - Sylvia Day

102. “A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.” - Lisa Kleypas

103. “Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” - Roman Payne

104. “It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.” - Carolyn Parkhurst

105. “Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatetheir human and dog natures.” - Jeet Thayil

106. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.” - Coco Chanel

107. “It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.” - Shannon L. Alder

108. “No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.” - Guy Gavriel Kay

109. “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

110. “If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman” - Munia Khan

111. “I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.” - Marjorie Celona

112. “The inner man is the periphery of our consciousness. It is also the inner man that takes care of and protects the inner woman for example through putting up creative boundaries. The meeting between a man and a woman on the outer plane creates a relationship. This relationship is not a conflict, but they complement each other. The outer meeting between a man and a woman also creates integration between our own inner male and female sides.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

113. “She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.” - Jodi Picoult

114. “We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?” - Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

115. “He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.” - Aimee Bender

116. “He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’.” - Dianna Hardy

117. “The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.” - Dianna Hardy

118. “خلق الله آدم ثم عاد فخلق حواء أحسن منه و لكنة خلق الأطفال أروع من الجميع” - أنيس منصور

119. “মেয়েরা অল্প কারণে কাদতে জানে এবং বিনা কারণে হাসতে পারে, কারণ ব্যতীত কার্য হয় না, জগতের এই কড়া নিয়মটা কেবল পুরুষের পক্ষেই খাটে । ....রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর” - রবীন দ রনাথ ঠাকুর