Woman Quotes

"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another"

"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp"

"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature"

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman"

Edith Stein, Saint

"If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty"

Chris Rock, Comedian

"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband"

Little Richard, Musician

"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman"

John Norman, Writer

"Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him"

John Gray, Author

"A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped"

Sam Levenson, Author

"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman"

Nina Simone, Musician

"I like a woman with priorities"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings"

Andreas Capellanus, Writer

"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man"

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest"

Marie de France, Poet

"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I am woman, hear me roar"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it"

Scott Caan, Actor

"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one"

Penelope Lively, Author

"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements"

D. W. Griffith, Director

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