Women Quotes

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.

A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

I just think it's a really unique thing to women, this weird psychotic jealousy.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves.

My personal passion is to educate women so that they can be empowered to make better choices. Sometimes we don't make healthy choices because we don't know any better.

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.

Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.