Women Quotes

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.

How can I ever miss you when you never go away?

I know how to find things.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.