Women Quotes

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of.

I naturally have some curves, like most women, just unfortunately not like most women in Hollywood. I'm only considered curvy in Hollywood. It's a weird town.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

There is true freedom in letting go.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.