Woman Quotes

"And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut"

"I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know"

Oliver Stone, Director

"A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life"

James Caviezel, Actor

"PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman"

Lena Horne, Actress

"Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!"

Grey DeLisle, Musician

"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more"

Jody Watley, Musician

"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes"

Jody Watley, Musician

"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"There is a woman at the begining of all great things"

Alphonse de Lamartine, Poet

"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard"

David Soul, Actor

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world"

Jerry Lewis, Comedian

"We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents"

Geena Davis, Actress

"As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else"

Jeanette Rankin, Politician

"There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme"

Dwight Yoakam, Musician

"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone"

Amy Vanderbilt, Author

"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down"

Barbara Cartland, Novelist

"I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement"

Astrid Lindgren, Author

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