Women Quotes

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

Half of my employees are women.

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.