Women Quotes

Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe for you.

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.

I believe that women make some of the best leaders.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.

I just think women should support women.

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.