Subject: People » Women (Page 5)

Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like George S. Kaufman.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

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When man and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

I'm just a person trapped in a woman's body.

(1952 – ) comedian

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

(1967 – ) Honduran-born American comedian, writer & actor

Bimbo: Any woman to whom you pay a compliment, while in the company of your wife.

Man: An animal [whose]… chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Intuition: The sixth sense that allows a woman five wrong guesses.

A woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambition.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

(1901 – 2000) English author

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

The littlest things can set women off – like, “Hey, the waitress is hot! I bet we could get her to come home with us.” Or, “How much does your mom weigh? I want to know what I’m getting into.”

(1980 – ) American actor, comedian & musician

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is; I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

(1918 - 2002) American author

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

(1890 – 1973) Italian-French designer