Woman Quotes

"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

"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through"

Donna Karan, Designer

"When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Journalist

"All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman"

Federico Fellini, Director

"I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners"

Florence King, Writer

"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband"

Booth Tarkington, Novelist

"I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero"

Corazon Aquino, President

"He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?"

Christine Keeler, Model

"It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems"

Dario Argento, Director

"People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

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