Woman Quotes

"The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person"

Candace Bushnell, Writer

"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down"

Beverly Sills, Musician

"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman"

Crystal Eastman, Lawyer

"If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater"

Christy Mathewson, Athlete

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman"

Bill Frist, Politician

"A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be"

Barbara Cartland, Novelist

"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"

Charlotte Ross, Actress

"A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife"

Anna Garlin Spencer

"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process"

Benjamin Harrison, President

"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever"

Ally Sheedy, Actress

"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations"

Anna Garlin Spencer

"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers"

Alexander McQueen, Designer

"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed"

Angie Stone, Musician

"A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy"

Barbara Cartland, Novelist

"I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian"

Ally Sheedy, Actress

"The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"I'm a big woman. I need big hair"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family"

Rick Perry, Politician

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war"

Åsne Seierstad, Journalist

"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out"

Dolly Parton, Musician

"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out"

Dolly Parton, Musician

"I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

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