I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.B.R. Ambedkar
Women Quotes
These 17 quotes on women come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'.Malala Yousafzai
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.Germaine Greer
I am a writer first and a woman after.Katherine Mansfield
One is not born, but becomes a woman.Simone de Beauvoir
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ain't I a woman?Sojourner Truth
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.Booker T. Washington
All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.William Shakespeare
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.Virginia Woolf
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its…Queen Victoria
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.Elizabeth I
Telephone, telegraph, tell a woman.Estee Lauder
The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.Serena Williams
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.Golda Meir