Women Quotes

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.