Women Quotes

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Women hold up half the sky.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

To awaken the people, it is the women who must first be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where his happiness lies.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

The great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this great majority.