Women Quotes

"If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry"

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream"

"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women"

Lee Grant, Actress

"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America"

Joe Baca, Politician

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I think women are too valuable to be in combat"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten"

George William Curtis, Author

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat"

Allen West, Politician

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due"

James Cook, Explorer

"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women"

John Bright, Politician

"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you"

John Malkovich, Actor

"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

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