Women Quotes

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

Jack leaned over, “Ever get the impression that these women are way out of our league?” “I shot the last guy who said that to me.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

All women are sisters.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.