Women Quotes

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Women can't forgive failure.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.