Intelligent Women Quotes

• I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Intelligent, Powerful Women

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• Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Feminist

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

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• An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

  Bette Davis

  Intelligent, Men, Married

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• I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Staring

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• There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Nonsense

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• Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

  Kathy Lette

  Relationship, Birthday, Humorous

  Kathy Lette (2010). “Men: A User's Guide”, p.1, Random House

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• Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Men, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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  Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  Natalie Portman

  Love, Girly, Women

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Equality, Men

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• An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

  Paul Valery

  Stupid, Intelligent, Want

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• Intelligent women always marry fools

  Anatole France

  Intelligent, Fool

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Intelligent, Thinking, Talking

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• I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Beautiful, Sexy, Eye

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• There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Intelligent, Boring

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• This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Girl, Intelligent, Men

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• Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

  Jean Kerr

  Mother, Silly, Intelligent

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Intelligent, Feminist

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Intelligent, Stories, Debt

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• I think every intelligent woman should have a career.

  Bonita Granville

  Thinking, Intelligent, Careers

  "Fictional character: Nancy Drew". "Nancy Drew: Detective", www.imdb.com. 1938.

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• It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Intelligent, Men, Voice

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.107, Rowman & Littlefield

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• I’d love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.

  Nina Dobrev

  Intelligent, Fey, Lines

  "Comic-Con 2011: 'The Vampire Diaries'' Nina Dobrev on Love for 'Wilfred,' Angelina Jolie (Q&A)". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Black

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• ... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

  Catharine Beecher

  Intelligent, Innocence And Experience, Tools

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