Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.  - EURIPIDES, Medea

“A Lady with a Lamp shall stand / In the great history of the land. / A noble type of good, / Heroic womanhood.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind. - BARACK OBAMA

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian. -  Wilma Mankiller

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. - GEORGE WASHINGTON

Women are not allowed to be complicated in our society. We still very much have a Madonna-whore complex. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between. - CHARLIZE THERON

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. - - Jane Galvin Lewis

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." - - Clare Boothe Luce

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. - - Booth Tarkington

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. - - Stanley Baldwin

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. - - Minna Antrim

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. - - Simone de Beauvoir

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men. -  Mohandas K. Gandhi

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. - - George Santayana