Famous Quotes

"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

Harriet Beecher Stowe on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• "So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."

• "I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."

• "The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."

• "A woman's health is her capital."

• "Human nature is above all things lazy."