Book Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke…

— Gail Sheehy

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

— Cherie Priest

“There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without women is…

— Rebecca Solnit

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

— Colleen McCullough

A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

— Simone de Beauvoir

In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a…

— Trevor Noah

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest…

— Elizabeth Janeway

While the male wants to conquer the world, the woman has a take on her immediate world that is so sparklingly refreshing that the…

— Mahesh Bhatt

'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in woman-kind

— Alexander Pope

The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful…

— Paul Polman

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

— Jules de Goncourt

“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting…

— Justin Cronin

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will…

— Adrienne Rich