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Every year on 8 March is International Women’s Day. Enjoy these proverbs and quotes about women.

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane Austen
Source: Persuasion

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Oscar Wilde

I like my coffee strong and my women weak.
Alexander Pappas

I want a zero tolerance policy on all the patriarchal bullshit.
Caitlin Moran
Source: How to Be a Woman

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry

If a woman says "no", you have no clue what she means.
(unknown author)

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. Christ

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking

It is easier to guard a bushel of fleas than a woman.

It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things. ... But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean.
Stephen Hawking

Kent, sir --- everybody knows Kent --- apples, cherries, hops, and women.
Charles Dickens

Man is the head of the family; woman is the neck that turns the head.

Men and women differ genetically, anatomically, hormonally, neurologically, and behaviorally; it simply does not make sense to isolate the last difference from the other four.
Frans de Waal
Source: Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes

Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams.

Men make houses, women make homes.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.
Michelle Obama

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates

One tongue is enough for a woman.
Women talk too much.

One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.

Onions, smoke, and women bring tears to your eyes.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly Brook

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Some women are not beautiful – they only look as though they are.
Karl Kraus

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn

The dog for the man, the cat for the woman.

The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison; that is only to be found in a woman's heart.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling

The three most difficult to understand; the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees and the ebb and flow of the tide.
(unknown author)

There is no question that a Neanderthal could easily beat us up. So, too, presumably could their women, which may be why we are only 2 percent Neanderthal instead of 50 percent. Those bitches were too scary for us.
Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island

There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.

There was never a conflict without a woman.

There’s just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.
Kathleen Hanna

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette Davis

When a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen.

When you say No to a woman, sir, always say it in one word. If you give her your reasons, she invariably believes that you mean Yes.
Wilkie Collins
Source: Armadale

Where there is woman, there is magic.
Ntozake Shange

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking

Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Women are like wasps in their anger.

Women are never kind ... though they can sometimes be tender.
Agatha Christie
Source: After the Funeral
Quoted: Hercule Poirot

Women sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the do-it-yourself type
(unknown author)

Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.
(unknown author)

Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
In reply to the question: What do you think most about during the day?

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young



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