Timeless Quotes on Women

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Timeless Quotes on Women​

Ancient Era (1000–600 BC)
The Bible (Old Testament)

“While I was still searching but not finding—I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.” – Ecclesiastes 7:28
“For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.” – Proverbs 6:26
“Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.” – Isaiah 3:12

Classical China (551–479 BC)
Confucius

“Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly with them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.”

Ancient Greece (470–399 BC)
Socrates

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.”

Greek Comedy (446–386 BC)
Aristophanes

“O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell.” – Lysistrata
“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.” – Lysistrata
“Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.” – Ecclesiazusae, lines 236–238

Greek Philosophy (423–348 BC)
Plato

“Women are accustomed to creep into dark places… they will not endure to have the truth spoken without raising a tremendous outcry.” – Laws VI

Greek Science (384–322 BC)
Aristotle

“Woman may be said to be an inferior man.”
“What difference does it make whether women rule, or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.”
“Females are weaker and colder in nature, and we must look upon the female character as being a sort of natural deficiency.”

Ancient India (c. 200 BC)
Bhagavad Gita

“When irreligion is prominent in the family, O Kṛṣṇa, the women of the family become polluted, and from the degradation of womanhood comes unwanted progeny.” – 1:40

Roman Poetry (43 BC – 18 AD)
Ovid

“A chaste woman is one who has not been propositioned.”
“[A woman] is constant only in her inconstancy.”
“Thus neither with thee nor without thee can I live.”
“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”
“Girls praise a poem, but go for expensive presents… gold buys honor, gold procures love.” – The Art of Love

Early Christianity (c. 80 AD)
The Bible (New Testament)

“The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man.” – 1 Corinthians 11:3
“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission… she must be quiet.” – 1 Timothy 2:11–12
“And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.” – 1 Timothy 2:14

Early Church Fathers (155–240 AD)
Tertullian

“Woman is a temple built upon a sewer.”
“You are the devil’s gateway… Woman, you are the gateway to hell.” – De cultu feminarum

Late Antiquity (349–407 AD)
St John Chrysostom

“Amongst all the savage beasts none is found so harmful as woman.”
“It does not profit a man to marry. For what is a woman but an enemy of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil…?”

Islamic Tradition (570–632 AD)
Muhammad (Hadith)

“I was shown Hell… and I saw that the majority of its people are women… because of their ingratitude to husbands.” – Sahih al-Bukhari 1052
“Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.” – Sahih al-Bukhari 7099

Medieval Buddhism (1016–1041 AD)
Naropa

“Countless are woman's defects. My elephantine mind has fallen into the poisonous swamp of guile. So I must renounce the world.”

Scholastic Theology (1225–1274 AD)
Thomas Aquinas

“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten…” – Summa Theologica

Reformation (1483–1546 AD)
Martin Luther

“The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.”
“No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.”

Reformed Theology (1509–1564 AD)
John Calvin

“Woman can never be the best governor… in the nature of all woman lurketh such vices…”
“Thus the woman… is cast into servitude.”

French Moralists (1613–1680 AD)
François de La Rochefoucauld

“The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.”
“All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.”

Enlightenment (1724–1804 AD)
Immanuel Kant

“Women are more inclined to be miserly than men… for they are spending money which they do not earn themselves.”
“Woman has a superior feeling for the beautiful, so far as it pertains to herself.”

Napoleonic Era (1769–1821 AD)
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nature has made woman our slave… she is his property.”
“Women… are mere machines to make children.”

German Philosophy (1788–1860 AD)
Arthur Schopenhauer

“Women are… thorough-going philistines, and quite incurable.”
“The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.”
“Women… are big children all their lives…”

Existentialism (1813–1855 AD)
Søren Kierkegaard

“Woman is personified egotism.”
“Man can never be so cruel as a woman.”

Victorian Era (1819–1901 AD)
Queen Victoria

“Feminists ought to get a good whipping… Were woman to ‘unsex’ themselves… they would surely perish without male protection.”

Japanese Zen (1839–1925 AD)
Nakahara Nantenbō

“The outward manner and temper of women is rooted in the negative (yin) power… among women compassion and honesty are rare indeed.”

Late Romanticism (1844–1900 AD)
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything about woman has one solution: that is pregnancy.”
“Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable…”

Modern Drama (1849–1912 AD)
August Strindberg

“Every healthy man is a woman hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy.”

Psychoanalysis (1856–1939 AD)
Sigmund Freud

“Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own.”
“The great question… ‘What does a woman want?’”

Modern Literature (1856–1950 AD)
George Bernard Shaw

“Give women the vote and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”

Catholic Apologetics (1874–1936 AD)
G.K. Chesterton

“Ten thousand English women marched… shouting, ‘We will not be dictated to,’ and went off and became stenographers.”

Analytical Psychology (1875–1961 AD)
Carl Gustav Jung

“No one can evade the fact that… woman is doing something not wholly in agreement with… her feminine nature.”

Early 20th-Century Philosophy (1880–1903 AD)
Otto Weininger

“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them.”

American Satire (1880–1956 AD)
H. L. Mencken

“Misogynist: a man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

Contemporary Critique (1935–)
Esther Vilar

“By the age of twelve… most women have decided to become prostitutes. Or… they have chosen a future… of letting a man do all the work.”

Modern Feminism (1947–)
Camille Paglia

“If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.”
“Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives… Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it.”

 

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