Women Quotes
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Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
Phylicia Rashad
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I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
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It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.
Cheryl Lynn
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel
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If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.
Marillyn Hewson
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
Patrick Whitesell
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I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.
Emma Ishta
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
Oscar Wilde
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From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
Zooey Deschanel
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
Olga Kurylenko
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
Yelena Baturina
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
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The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.
Megan Amram
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
Jeanne Moreau
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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
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Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.
Tawakkol Karman
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Salman Rushdie
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When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.
Tammy Duckworth
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
Ted Cruz
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
Adam Grant
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In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
Debra Winger
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
Orson Scott Card