Putting Your Foot Down

What do women want? - Sigmund Freud

Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong

I married beneath me. All women do. - Lady Nancy Astor

Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell

A woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambition. - Unknown

I've been told I'm a role model to many women. - Donald Trump

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. - Steve Martin

A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife. - African Proverb

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes. - Robin Williams

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. - Sally Kempton

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. - Groucho Marx

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. - Stephanie Piro

It is much easier to take care of a sackful of fleas than a woman. - German Proverb

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

What else is there to live for? Chinese food and women. There is nothing else! - Dudley Moore

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

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it. - Jean-Paul Belmondo

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society. - Rush Limbaugh

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

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. - Rod Stewart

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. - Agatha Christie

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

Never try to impress a woman because if you do, you'll have to keep up that standard the rest of your life. - WC Fields

When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street. - Steven Wright

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. - Glenn Frey

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. - Francesca M. Cancian

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true. - Jennifer Castle

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. - Casey Stengel

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. - Barbara Ehrenreich