Quotes

Words worth keeping

49 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Filtered by: Women Clear all

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

— Jane Austen
Self & Identity Courage & Strength Women Fear Freedom

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

— Jane Austen
Self & Identity Courage & Strength Women Freedom

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

— Nora Ephron
Self & Identity Courage & Strength Women

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

— John Lennon
Women

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

— Coco Chanel
Art & Beauty Women

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

— Bette Davis
Women

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

— Brigham Young
Education & Knowledge Women

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

— Mae West
Women

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

— George Carlin
Truth Women

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Brontë
Self & Identity Truth Women Freedom

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Inspirational Women

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

— Joseph Conrad
Women

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

— Virginia Woolf
Books & Writing Women Freedom

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

— Charlotte Brontë
Love Women

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational Women

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.