Famous Quotes

"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Iris Murdoch 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 Iris Murdoch

• "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

• "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

• "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

• "We can only learn to love by loving."

• "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."