Words worth keeping
49 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.