Women Quotes

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

[Maxine Waters] was kind enough to join us here at our studios in Washington, D.C., in advance of women's march in Washington in which she will be participating.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Being a woman is hard work.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

I love working with women. I think it's because I spent so much time in my brother's heavy metal band. Sweaty boys in the rehearsal room. It's nice to just be in the studio with a fragrant lady.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.