Women
- Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arcadia, drama series on CBS
- Joan, Princess of Wales, in the 13th century, the wife and consort of Llywelyn the Great, the Prince of Wales; and the daughter of King John of England. Also the subject of the play Siwan (play) by Saunders Lewis
- Joan Allen, American film actress
- Joan Baez, folk singer-songwriter; Joan (album) was an album she released in 1967
- Joan Benoit, American marathoner
- Joan Caulfield, American film actress
- Joan Collins, English television and film actress and author
- Joan Crawford, American actress
- Joan Cusack, American film actress
- Joan Didion, American writer
- Joan Fontaine, American film actress
- Joan Hansen, American long-distance runner
- Joan Hickson (1906-1998), British actress
- Joan Jett, musician
- Joan of Kent, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England
- Joan Kennedy, American politician
- Joan Leemhuis-Stout, Dutch politician
- Joan Lindsay, an Australian author, best known for her story Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
- Joan of Lorraine, play by Maxwell Anderson
- Joan I of Naples
- Joan II of Naples
- Joan Orenstein, Canadian actress
- Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Swynford wife of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem
- Joan Rivers, American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer
- Joan Wyndham, British writer and memoirist
- Joanie Cunningham, character on Happy Days
- Sow Joan, an Animal Crossing series character
- Pope Joan, 9th century legend
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Famous quotes containing the word women:
“Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world—a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others—into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one’s future.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)