Intelligent Women Quotes

Intelligent Women Quotes by Anatole France, Mignon McLaughlin, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Nina Dobrev, Margaret Thatcher, Ellen von Unwerth and many others.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Intelligent women always marry fools
Anatole France
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
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
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
There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.
Margaret Thatcher
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
I think every intelligent woman should have a career.
Bonita Granville
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo Tolstoy
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
… 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
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
Doris Lessing
Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.
Kathy Lette
An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies… all the stupid men.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis
The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray very strong, intelligent women. It has been such a privilege to depict a woman that is independent, unapologetic, and resilient on both shows.
Amanda Schull
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.
Rose Henniker Heaton
Don’t be silly. I’m a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I’m afraid of my mother.
Jean Kerr
[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don’t see much to fear.
Kate Bush
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
Maya Angelou
Hillary Clinton’s a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she’s dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. … She’s not the woman for the White House.
Carly Fiorina
I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.
Henry Rollins
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
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
Paul Valery
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Natalie Portman