Women Quotes

The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.