Women Quotes
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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Wilma Mankiller
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore
Cynthia Nixon
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.
Chrissy Metz
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We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
Anne Roiphe
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Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.
Daniel Kahneman
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The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
Betty Williams
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Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
Sid Caesar
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Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
Louise Slaughter
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Gurls Talk is my baby. It's just about opening up a space within schools where we as women and girls can talk about whatever we want.
Adwoa Aboah
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Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
Mark Pryor
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Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.
Elvis Mitchell
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Clara Zetkin
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Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
Lucy Liu
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.
Barack Obama
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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Skating is really hard, especially women's skating where we're judged in little tiny dresses.
Kaetlyn Osmond
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
Laeta Kalogridis
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
Clare Wright
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And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.
Kerry Healey
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Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Anne Hutchinson
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Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
Jean Harlow