Woman Quotes

"Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on"

"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"You can be a woman who wants to look good and still stand up for the equality of women"

Meghan Markle, Actress

"I am proud to be a woman and a feminist"

Meghan Markle, Actress

"I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works"

Meghan Markle, Actress

"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman"

Sol Wachtler, Judge

"A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead"

James Randi, Entertainer

"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it"

Laura Kightlinger, Comedian

"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady"

Edith Head, Designer

"The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor"

Marguerite de Valois, Royalty

"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

"When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble"

Barbara Taylor Bradford, Novelist

"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again"

Leon Blum, Politician

"Every woman has the right to be beautiful"

Elizabeth Arden, Businessman

"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that"

George Brett, Athlete

"The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites"

David Duke, Celebrity

"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!"

William McFee, Writer

"Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk"

W. L. George, Writer

"Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"I'm not a career woman"

June Allyson, Actress

"Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso"

Clark Gable, Actor

"Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black"

Charles Evers, Activist

"It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience"

Ninon de L'Enclos, Author

"A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh"

Wanda Sykes, Comedian

"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad"

Susannah York, Actress

"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man"

Joan Crawford, Actress

"Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy"

Roy Orbison, Musician

"A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents"

Raj Kapoor, Actor

"The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt"

Chris A. Bridges, Author

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