Famous Quotes

"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

W. E. B. Du Bois 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 W. E. B. Du Bois

• "One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

• "An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

• "Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

• "Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

• "The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"