About Women Quotes

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?'

So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary) Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.

As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.

All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.

Women want to be chosen.