Famous Quotes

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."

Marya Mannes 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 Marya Mannes

• "For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

• "In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."

• "It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

• "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

• "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."