Women Quotes
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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
Jane Austen
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Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
Kameron Hurley
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I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women's race - let alone as world champion.
Lizzie Armitstead
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Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
Ellen Malcolm
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We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.
Burgess Owens
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I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?
Ne-Yo
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I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.
Ann Dowd
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Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
David Grimes
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People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
Jessica Simpson
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I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.
Elie Tahari
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir
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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler
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I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.
Cherie Blair
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I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
Johanna Siguroardottir
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I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has primarily to do with distractions … Women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
Alber Elbaz
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.
Amy Klobuchar
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Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
Janet Fitch
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Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
Brad Bird
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I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.'
Mary Kay Andrews
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At all levels - with men and women - the 3-point shot has utterly transformed the way the game is played. More and more, the players are spread out, looking to pop behind the 3-point arc.
Frank Deford
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Dorothy Day