Women Quotes

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.

The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.