Woman Quotes

"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me"

"A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx"

"People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"

Mark Strong, Actor

"I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter"

Pete Coors, Businessman

"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally"

Michael Biehn, Actor

"Woman is also the element of conflict"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser"

Joan Crawford, Actress

"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine"

Shirley Booth, Actress

"A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms"

Rob Schneider, Comedian

"I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me"

Roy Orbison, Musician

"Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive"

Kirk Douglas, Actor

"As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger"

Grace Kelly, Actress

"We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?"

Frank Pittman

"There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra"

Doris Roberts, Actress

"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too"

Barry Watson, Actor

"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know"

Shakira, Musician

"I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won"

Charles Godfrey Leland, Writer

"In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious"

Carole King, Musician

"I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men"

Bill Owen

"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel"

Robert Klein, Comedian

"You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought"

Louise Fletcher, Actress

"If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"I'm a writer first and a woman after"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry"

Suzi Quatro, Musician

"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman"

Jeffrey Hunter, Actor

"Designing Woman was written for the screen"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry"

Tom Leykis, Entertainer

"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself"

Nancy Friday, Author

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised"

Freya Stark, Writer

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