Famous Quotes

"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• "I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."

• "My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."

• "My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."

• "The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."

• "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."