Woman Quotes

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman"

"I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self"

Mainbocher, Designer

"If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi"

Karen McDougal, Model

"No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"You would never expect a black woman to be the hero"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together"

Tom Verlaine, Musician

"You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare"

Jenny McCarthy, Model

"What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"For a woman, forty is torture, the end"

Grace Kelly, Actress

"An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other"

Norma Shearer, Actress

"My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you"

Wild Bill Hickok, Celebrity

"When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'"

Vince Vaughn, Actor

"I learned a woman is never an old woman"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner"

Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist

"It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen"

James Howell, Writer

"I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life"

Perry Como, Musician

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her"

Lucretia Mott, Activist

"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"

Ken Follett, Author

"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman"

Joan Crawford, Actress

"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him"

Ernest Lehman

"People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with"

Myriam Miedzian, Actress

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