Women Quotes

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

You can't feel happy unless you feel free.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.

All German women are beautiful.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

Wild women don't get the blues.

The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Empowering women means trusting them.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.