Women Quotes
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The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Patrick Henry
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I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.
Natalie Dormer
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When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
Hubert de Givenchy
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Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Mayim Bialik
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When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'
Donna Karan
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We're going to give men what they really want to see on TV. Monkeys, midgets, beer drinking and women jumping on trampolines.
Jimmy Kimmel
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It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.
Cherie Blair
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I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.
Madchen Amick
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
Caitriona Balfe
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When I came into WWE, what I said to myself was, I wanted to change the term from 'divas' to 'women.'
Becky Lynch
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It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
Yi So-Yeon
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Natalie Portman
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I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.
Angourie Rice
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I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.
Christine Sinclair
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It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.
John David Washington
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.
Warren Farrell
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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
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
Adam Cohen
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'Wonder Woman' is much more than a cartoon character. She's fighting for truth and justice and the secret self that exists in all women and girls. There's a moral fiber and a goodness about her that all women have.
Lynda Carter
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
Warren Farrell