Best Women Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.”

“As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

“… women are notoriously underpaid compared to men … Women tend to look for acceptance before compensation. A woman can be told that she’s loved, and needed, and brilliant, and wonderful, and that will be enough to hold her down. Women are hypnotised by that kind of language … Too many women … are still willing to settle for a stroke instead of a contract, a pat on the head instead of a substantial raise or bonus. Don’t do it. Dogs and children get pats on the head. Women in business get cash.”

“… As women get older, they become more powerful, more lucid, more sure of what they want. And that can be very challenging for a man.”

“I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.”

“The measure of a man is his silence. The measure of a woman is her elocution. Beware of an overly talkative man and an inordinately silent woman.”

“It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.”

“Occasionally,”

“He loved the curves on her body, her soft skin and pouty lower lip, her deep soulful eyes. He adored her voice; sometimes sultry, sometimes fiery. Her laugh, her playfulness... he adored it all. But what really turned him on were the curves in her mind, the twists and turns, the fire, the brilliance - and her compassionate heart; the beat of it harmonizing so sweetly and perfectly with the beat of his. The whole package was beyond thrilling... yet her mind, her heart, those were the immortal aphrodisiacs.”

“she’s caught”

“He remembers which sister”

“don't think you can ever forget her”

“As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. All this time I thought I'd been kissing, but maybe I'm always doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kissing dead girls in hopes that the heart will start again. Where there's breath, I've heard, there's hope.”

“Some songs take women places men cannot”

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

“Go and catch a falling star,”

“I like the lady horses best,”

“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”

“Marriage I think”

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in”

“Used to be he”

“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”

“For you she learned to wear a short black slip”

“SHE is neither pink nor pale,”

“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”

“We are the blood”

“From her thighs, she gives you life”