Women Quotes

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.

Men want to make women happy.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.