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Words of Wisdom on the Wisdom of Women

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
~ Susan B. Anthony, prominent American civil rights leader

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the U.S.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
~ Constance Baker Motley, first Black woman in the U.S. to become a federal judge

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the U.S.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~ Susan B. Anthony, prominent American civil rights leader

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~ Martha Washington, first First Lady of the U.S.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~ Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known for her novel Little Women

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.
~ Author Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
~ Arnold Haultain, author

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
~ Charlotte Whitton, a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
~ Chauncey Mitchell Depew, United States Senator from New York

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
~ Madeleine K. Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~ Alexandre Dumas, writer, author, and playwright

In passing, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.
~ Nancy Astor, first woman to serve as a member of Parliament in the British House of Commons

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
~ Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves!
~ Elissa Melamed, author

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
~ Compton Mackenzie, English-born Scottish novelist

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir, feminist

A man chases a woman until she catches him.
~ American Proverb

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
~ Samuel Johnson, essayist, poet, and biographer

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
~ James Thurber, U.S. humorist and cartoonist

I hate women because they always know where things are.
~ Voltaire, French writer, essayist, and philosopher

Good-looking women break hearts, and goodhearted women mend them.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, American journalist and author

The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~ Anita Loos, acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author

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