About Women Quotes

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.

Saudi women like makeup. And I'm OK with that. If that's what you want to make you feel good, go for it.

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.