Women Quotes

• In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Small
  • Personality

• I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Past
  • Taken
  • Literature

• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • inspirational
  • Humor
  • Rewards

• Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Honor

• No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Women
  • Nurturing

• We should put hardworking families first by voting on legislation to create jobs, raise wages, provide equal pay for women, invest in education, protect voting rights, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Women
  • Education
  • Immigration

• I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • Paradise

• It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

  

  Barack Obama
  • King
  • Moon
  • Mountain

• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Men
  • True
  • Possibility

• I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Amazing
  • Sports
  • Irish

• Mrs. Goldenthal's twin boys, Alex and Erno, were our age, and I discovered that they had been selected at Auschwitz for Mengele's experiments like us. Mrs. Goldenthan had stayed with them, and I found out later that she had hidden a younger child, Margarita, underneath her long skirt. She had come into the camp with the child hidden in her dress and during her entire stay there, even in the Nazi barracks where she had kept Margarita under the mattress during inspections, she and the other women had helped conceal the child.

  

  Eva Mozes Kor
  • Child
  • Twin
  • Helped

• I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.

  

  Bethany Joy Lenz
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Why
  • Culture

• There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Women
  • Baby

• When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Up
  • Character
  • Comedy

• There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Family
  • Power
  • War

• There's so much pressure on women to have it all together. There's always this 'next, next, next.' I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Relax

• A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Women
  • Understanding

• When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Mother
  • Hate
  • Christian

• If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.

  

  James Stephens
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Women
  • Science

• I think that all men and women both, particularly women, hold back on parts of ourselves because they don't fit into the traditional workplace model.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Men
  • Model
  • Workplace

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