Women Quotes

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

Some styles don't look good on bigger women.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.