Women Quotes
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It's true that I am surrounded by beautiful women in the movies. But the romance is only on screen.
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
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We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
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NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
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I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.
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When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
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The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.
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If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
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The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept.
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I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.
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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
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I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.
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Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.
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If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
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I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.
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Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
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Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
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Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.
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We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.
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Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.
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There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.
