The motivation to study the cultural and linguistic aspects of proverbs about women comes from my interest for proverbs and the desire to make acquaintance with women\’s role in the society, their own world in which they have their rules and their power. Women were always criticized and admired, humiliated and loved, and all these are illustrated in proverbs that we read every day, we amuse ourselves with and comment upon. Not only the syntactical and grammatical structure of proverbs motivates a student to make a closer study on them, but also their meaning that becomes very important when decoding their messages and when applying their \’\’lessons\’\’ in real life.

The main purpose of this research paper is to analyze proverbs about women demonstrating their origin and cultural peculiarities, structure and classification according to different authors.
The hypothesis we admit in this research is that proverbs about women in both English and Romanian cultures rather criticize and mock at women due to their pretended inferiority to men and their nature difficult to be understood by men.
The practical value of this work consists in providing classifications of 150 proverbs about women analyzed in terms of linguistics, which can be useful for researchers working with proverbs, feminism and role of gender. It is also important in discussing the actuality of proverbs nowadays, which are used daily by everyone in speaking and writing, in schools when making essays and commentaries, sometimes in the headlines of articles