A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
Joyce Brothers

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Tse-Tung

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer

Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope