Woman Quotes

"Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too"

Paul Kane, Writer

"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that"

John Lone, Actor

"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear"

Michael Chabon, Author

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something"

John Lone, Actor

"So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet"

Diane Wakoski, Poet

"Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat"

Russell Crowe, Actor

"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure"

Lara St. John, Musician

"Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine"

Ida Lupino, Actress

"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"I am my own woman"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused"

Anne Heche, Actress

"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!"

Jessica Simpson, Musician

"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them"

Jason Mewes, Actor

"I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand"

Ilka Chase, Actress

"I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young"

Amy Grant, Musician

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