Women Quotes
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...women, brave as stars at dawn.
Edwidge Danticat
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
Lisa See
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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner
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The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
Douglas Kirkland
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Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
Loni Love
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I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.
Jonathan Franzen
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Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.
Lela Loren
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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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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
Angelique Kidjo
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It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
Zainab Salbi
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That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.
Dee Dee Myers
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
Marianne Williamson
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I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.
Pablo Picasso
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It’s not just about beauty standards. It also really translates to socioeconomic status for women in many developing countries across the world
Nina Davuluri
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
Andie MacDowell
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Katharine Hepburn
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If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.
William Shakespeare
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How few women have any history after the age of thirty!
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Ernest Hemingway
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I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
Jane Pauley
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There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!
Amanda de Cadenet
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It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.
R. Madhavan