Woman Quotes

"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"The best protection any woman can have... is courage"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover"

Edwin A. Robinson

"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy"

Charles Eastman, Author

"I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant"

David Thewlis, Actor

"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice"

Leigh Hunt, Poet

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman"

Anna Faris, Actress

"There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I am a woman above everything else"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do"

Betty Ford, First Lady

"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

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