Women

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

—Groucho Marx

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

—J. M. Barrie

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

—Washington Irving

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resorting to physical strength?

—Barbara Deming

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

—Oscar Wilde

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

—Jackie Kennedy

Don't think you're special. Lots of women get him. No one keeps him.

—Penelope Douglas in Corrupt

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

—Bryan Procter

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

—Oscar Wilde

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

—Margaret Mead

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

—Oliver Herford

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

—Alice Thomas Ellis

Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron.

—William Ritter in Beastly Bones