Women Quotes
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If you're one of the only women on a set - if it's you and a bunch of men - you feel like your value doesn't come from your thoughts and your talent and what you say: your value comes from how you look and how you're perceived by the men around you.
Jessica Chastain
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
Cameron Russell
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Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
H. L. Mencken
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
Dana Perino
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith
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I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
Samina Baig
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.
Eric Metaxas
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
Jackie Speier
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
Ida Tarbell
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
Carine Roitfeld
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David
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I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
Sally Ride
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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
Jennifer Weiner
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I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more.
Caitlin Moran
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
Safak Pavey
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
Ian K. Smith
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Oscar Wilde
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
Brown Campbell
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
Gail Kelly