Women Quotes
-
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
Arthur Honegger
-
I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
Saffron Burrows
-
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
Kent Haruf
-
I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive message that women of all sizes really need to adopt.
Jameela Jamil
-
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
Mark Kennedy
-
Friedan: I thought it was absolutely outrageous that the Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars. ... I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shows. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold.
Betty Friedan
-
Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.
Patrick Rothfuss
-
My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.
Wendy Harmer
-
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
Naftali Bennett
-
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
Muriel Rukeyser
-
At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
Katharine Graham
-
Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
Warren Farrell
-
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
Phyllis Schlafly
-
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
Madame de Stael
-
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
Allison Pearson
-
'I think Kathaos fears no divine forces.''Then he’s a brave man.''Oh, men make their own gods,' Yannul remarked. 'I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.'
Tanith Lee
-
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
-
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
Mark Kirk
-
It's kind of epic to see four women really be physically and mentally strong, in themselves and in their lives. That's what 'Widows' is.
Cynthia Erivo
-
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
Marge Piercy
-
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Patti LaBelle
-
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia
-
I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
Colin Kaepernick
-
I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.
Imelda May