Women Quotes
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
Wendy Liebman
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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
Gene Tierney
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To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Karrine Steffans
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With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.
Anne Sexton
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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry
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Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.
Laura Ashley
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The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
Olivia De Havilland
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A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
Yuri Lowenthal
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You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.
Amanda de Cadenet
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When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.
Jessica Chastain
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After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.
Chris O'Dowd
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The fact that a New Hampshire legislator's position is not seen as a career or a way of supporting a family has meant that it draws women. At times, I think men who might be looking for a paid career have known that they couldn't make one out of serving in the legislature. So there's a little more space for women.
Maggie Hassan
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
Edith Head
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
O. Henry
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
Patricia Hill Collins
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My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.
Lynda Carter
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Guys like you make life easy for some women.
Saul Bellow
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Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.
Aristotle
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We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.
Carine Roitfeld
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Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.
Amandla Stenberg