Women Quotes

"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

"The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life"

Steve Buyer, Politician

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

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on"

Dudley Moore, Celebrity

"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

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

Bill Maher, Comedian

"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

"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 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

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad"

Eminem, Musician

"If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting"

Dorian Yates, Athlete

"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

"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts"

Gianni Versace, Designer

"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

"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country"

Ellen Wilkinson, Politician

"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

"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

"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"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

"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

"As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Women serve but to keep a man from better company"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood"

John Gray, Author

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding"

Queen Marie of Romania, Royalty

"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"

Tyra Banks, Model

"The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person"

Jon Favreau, Actor

"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

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