Women Quotes

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.